44 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
Two of the rises were dug into, one of which had on the surface crowns of 
human teeth, but no indications of burials were found in either rise and it was 
evident that their former contents had been plowed away. 
On the upper part of the plantation, in a cultivated field, near the water, 
is considerable dark soil with fragments of pottery, bits of flint, and arrowheads 
of the same material, broken and whole, on the surface. Trial-holes, however, 
failed to unearth any signs of interments. 
Still farther up on the plantation, in sight from the water, is an irregular 
eminence with a wide trench, or barrow-pit, surrounding it. Although we were 
confident that this mound was modern, both on account of its shape and the 
presence of the barrow-pit, we did a small amount of digging which came upon 
raw clay. We were informed also, by persons living on and near the plantation, 
that the mound was believed to have been made comparatively recently to 
afford refuge for cattle in periods of high water. 
MOUND on DEAN LAKE, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
On Dean lake, which is probably only a former course of Bayou Maçon, 
is a mound which may be reached by going about two miles in a northerly di- 
rection from Kimball Landing on Bayou Maçon. 
The mound, the name of whose owner we were unable to learn, is about 100 
yards from the eastern bank of Dean lake, in woods which one should enter 
about one-third up the lake from its southern end. The mound, 3.5 feet in 
height, is roughly circular, with a diameter of about 80 feet. It has been greatly 
trampled by cattle. 
Seven trial-holes showed the mound to have a thin surface layer of dark soil 
and to be otherwise of yellow clay, except where dark earth from the surface 
filled pits. A base-line was present at a depth of about 4 feet. 
Seven burials were reached by the trial-holes, which were much enlarged 
before the interments were removed. 
Burial No. 1, a bunch extending down from the surface, included twenty- 
four skulls. This grave contained dark, superficial soil continuing down from 
the surface. 
Burial No. 2 was of the bunched variety with one cranium. This burial 
was in yellow clay, and apparently had been made during the formation of the 
mound, as none of the dark soil of the surface was around it. 
Burial No. 3, a bunch having thirteen skulls, 6 inches down. With this 
burial were two bicave stones of quartzite, respectively 2.3 inches and 2.2 inches 
in diameter, and a small drill of flint. 
Burial No. 4, a bunched burial with four skulls, lay 15 inches down, in un- 
disturbed, yellow clay. In association was a small lump of sandstone. 
Burial No. 5, just below the surface, was a bunch having nine сгапіа. 
Burial No. 6, a bunched burial with a single skull,lay 18 inches down, in 
undisturbed, yellow clay. 
