CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 583 
encountered, though a hole of additional depth was made, extending into seem- 
ingly undisturbed soil. Ten inches below the surface was a layer of bones so badly 
decayed that the method of burial was past determination. | 
With this layer, together, were а small. undecorated bowl in fragments and а 
badly erushed vessel also without decoration. 
At another part of this layer of bones were two other vessels, both badly 
broken. None of these vessels was tempered with shell. ( 
Three feet 4 inches from the surface was a badly decayed burial which evi- 
dently had been at full length on the back. 
MOUNDS NEAR CAREY MIDDLETON GIN LANDING, HOLMES COUNTY. 
About one-half mile ESE. from the landing at the Carey Middleton gin, though 
somewhat farther by the road it is necessary to take in the rainy season, on 
property of Mr. Carey Middleton, who lives on the place, are two mounds in a 
cultivated field, about three hundred yards apart. 
Mound A, 6 feet 3 inches in height, much spread by cultivation, has a diameter 
of 64 feet. 
A hole 9 feet by 12 feet was carried squarely down through a dark line of soil 
into undisturbed ground below. 
One foot down was a bunched burial of badly decayed bones. 
Slightly lower was a skull indicated mainly by remnants of teeth. 
Mound B, NE. by N. from Mound A, is 5 feet 10 inches high and has a present 
diameter of 60 feet, much of which has been caused by the cultivation of the mound. 
An excavation 9 feet by 11 feet, carried perpendicularly down, was made to a 
depth of somewhat more than 6 feet. 
Eighteen inches down was a layer of fragments of caleined human bones, 80 
inches by 24 inches and 2 inches thick. Mixed with these fragments was burnt 
clay but no ashes or charcoal, which indicated that the cremation had been con- 
ducted elsewhere. 
| Three feet down were human bones too badly decayed to show the method of 
burial. 
The closely flexed skeleton of an adult, lying on the right side, was 3 feet 8 
inches below the surface. 
Not far from the Carey Middleton mounds is another which our agent informs 
us is somewhat larger than the ones investigated by us. This mound, belonging to 
another person, was not placed at our disposal. 
MOUND NEAR MONTGOMERY LANDING, HOLMES COUNTY. 
Our agent reported to us a mound near Montgomery Landing, which we did 
not visit, not having been able to obtain permission to dig. 
