ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 39 
MOUND ON THE MOUND Bavov PLACE, TENSAS PARISH. 
On the Mound Bayou Place, belonging to Mr. A. Blanche, who resides 
upon it, is a mound about one-quarter mile back from the landing, slightly less 
than 12 feet in height. This mound, which borders the road, is quadrangular, 
the basal diameters being 130 and 110 feet; those of the summit-plateau, 60 and 
40 feet in the same directions. The sides of this mound do not face the cardinal 
points, nor are its corners directed toward them. As the summit-plateau of 
this mound had been used extensively for burials in recent years, no digging 
into it was attempted. 
Across the road from the mound, in a cultivated field, was a small rise into 
which we dug unsuccessfully. 
MOUNDS ON THE LEE PLACE, TENsAs PARISH. 
In a cultivated field in sight from Lee Landing, on property belonging to 
Mrs. C. L. Lee, of Gilbert, La., is a circular mound 4 feet in height and 65 feet 
in diameter of base. Nearer the landing, beside the road, is a somewhat smaller 
mound on which stands a building intended for cattle. We were informed that 
both these mounds had been made in recent times as places of refuge in high 
water. 
MOUND AT Foou River, MADISON PARISH. 
An angle formed by the union of Fool river with the Tensas is much higher 
ground than is any neighboring territory, and for this reason, and because bits 
of pottery lie on the surface there, the whole of this high place has been called 
an Indian mound by lumbermen and others who occasionally use it as a camping 
place and whose numerous flasks, drained of their spirituous contents, scattered 
over the ground are about the only sign of the civilization of the white man to 
be seen for miles around. 
That this high ground is a natural formation is clearly shown by a wide 
section exposed by the wash of Tensas river. On the alluvial clay, however, is a 
thin, superficial stratum caused by aboriginal occupancy, in which is the usual 
midden débris—hence the sherds found on the surface. 
About fifty yards back from the Tensas river, on this elevated ground, is 
an irregularly circular mound, about 100 feet in diameter and somewhat more 
than 4 feet in height. 
Each of seven trial-holes sunk into this mound almost at once encountered 
human remains, which were found in such quantities in the three trial-holes 
first investigated that these were greatly enlarged and carefully examined, the 
digging out of the remaining burials being dispensed with. 
The upper part of the mound was composed of a layer about 16 inches in 
depth, dark in shade, perhaps from having been gathered from the nearby 
swamp, but containing no midden débris whatever. Below this was a stratum 
of soil black from admixture of organic matter, 3 feet 4 inches deep (of course 
