38 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
Burial No. 3. At a depth of 22 inches, had been two skeletons of adults, 
lying at full length on the back, the skulls together, the bodies radiating some- 
what. A narrow pit from the surface, probably made in recent times, perhaps 
a post-hole, had removed the skulls and the upper part of each thorax. 
Burial No. 4, a bunch with one skull; depth, 2 feet. 
Burial No. 5, a bunched burial 4.5 feet from the surface, having fifteen 
skulls. 
Burials Nos. 6 and 7. Each a bunched burial with one skull, at a depth of 
10 inches and 4.5 feet, respectively. 
Burial No. 8. A bunched burial having three skulls, 5 feet down. 
If mortuary deposits had been made with these burials, such deposits 
were of a perishable nature, since absolutely nothing lay with the skeletal re- 
mains that can be considered to have been intentionally put in. With one burial 
was an unworked astragalus of a deer, and with another, a small bit of stone 
grooved by use as a hone. In the soil near a burial was a graceful arrowhead 
of flint, 2 inches in length and slightly more than .5 inch in maximum diameter, 
the point unfortunately missing. 
Among the few fragments of pottery found in the digging were one with a 
decoration of faint, trailed lines, and a part of a handle, also with line-decora- 
tion, which evidently had extended at a right angle from the rim of a vessel. 
On the fields in which the mounds were was considerable midden débris, 
especially on the surface of Mound D and on a slight rise nearby. Some arrow- 
heads of flint, small and barbed, were found, and quantities of fragments of 
pottery eould be seen, including some bearing on one side a uniform coating of 
red pigment. All these were in small fragments, as one would expect them to 
be, having been plowed up and under through a long period of years. 
On the surface of Mound D was pieked up a graceful celt of quartzite, 
2.5 inches in length. 
Considerable digging in the field surrounding the mounds showed remains 
of former occupancy but unearthed no sign of skeletons. 
MOUNDS ON THE HEDGELAND PLACE, CATAHOULA PARISH. 
The Hedgeland Place, belonging to Mr. H. W. Foeman, has two mounds 
upon it, both in sight from the landing. That nearest the water, about 13 feet 
in height, has been quadrangular, but is so greatly washed and worn that meas- 
urements as to its present diameter of base are practically valueless. One meas- 
urement gave 125 feet, but others, if taken, would show marked variation. An 
exposed section of this mound showed it to be of clay, with no evidence of use 
for burial purposes. 
In a cultivated field is a mound 10 feet in height, which has suffered to an 
even greater extent by the ravages of time. Two measurements gave diameters 
of 165 feet; but this was a coincidence, as the basal outline was very irregular. 
What remained of the summit-plateau had been used as a cemetery in recent 
times. 
