580 CERTAIN MOUNDS ОЕ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
to acknowledge, is a mound 5 feet 6 inches in height and 94 feet in diameter. 
Eleven trial-holes were sunk without result. 
MOUND NEAR WELSE CAMP LANDING, HOLMES COUNTY. 
On property belonging to Messrs. L. G. and J. T. Montgomery, of Yazoo City, 
about three-quarters of a mile in a straight line SSE. from Welsh Camp Landing, 
though considerably farther by the road, at the edge of a swamp and in full view 
from the road, was a symmetrical mound, slightly furrowed in places by rain. 
On the surface of this mound we picked up a small pottery vessel with a dec- 
oration probably made by trailing a broad point on the surface of the clay before 
firing. Тһе decoration, however, had become rather indistinct through exposure. 
Near the foot of the mound lay an arrowhead or knife, of chert, and an object 
probably of red sandstone, flat on one side, convex on the other, 3.75 inches in 
diameter and 1.5 inches thick. 
The diameter of the base of the mound, which was circular, was 47 feet; the 
height as taken by us was 9 feet, but we are inclined to believe this figure exceeded 
the actual height, inasmuch as a perpendicular line from the summit plateau to 
undisturbed ground at the base proved to be but 7 feet 9 inches in length. 
This mound, which was surrounded and practically dug down by us, but sub- 
sequently was rebuilt, was composed of soft, brown loam in the outer parts, but as 
the digging progressed hard and tenacious material was encountered, requiring time 
and much work to penetrate it. 
What seemed to be the base of the mound was a line of black soil containing 
a few potsherds as well as fragments of bones of lower animals. Below it was 
undisturbed soil. 
The first burial was encountered 16 feet from the center of the mound, and 
consisted of human teeth and a few fragments of bone in the last stage of decay. 
In all, seventeen burials were met with, from 1 foot 9 inches to 8 feet 8 inches 
in depth, measured to the upper surface of the burials—those at the greatest depth 
being four skeletons in a circular grave at the center of the mound, 5 feet 8 inches 
in diameter and extending 1 foot 5 inches below the base. 
These four skeletons, with skulls in three different directions, lay three on 
their left sides and one on the right side. Three were closely flexed, the knees 
being drawn up well toward the chin. One of the skeletons, flexed on the left 
side, had the legs at right angles to the body. 
The skeletons, somewhat crushed, occupied a space 6 inches in thickness. 
But one other grave below the base—a bunched burial or a much-detached 
skeleton—was found by us. 
The predominating form of burial in this mound, where determination was 
possible, was that of close flexion, there being, in addition to the burials noted, 
four skeletons closely flexed on the right side, and two closely flexed on the left 
side. Moreover, two badly decayed skeletons indicated close flexion on the left 
side. There was also one bunched burial which may have been only a skeleton 
