46 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
MOUND ON THE BRANNIN PLACE, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
In a cultivated field forming part of the Brannin Place, of which Messrs. 
E. H. Ratcliff and W. J. Feltus, of Natchez, Miss., are proprietors, is a very 
symmetrical mound, 15 feet in height, in full view from the water. Its basal 
diameters are, respectively, №. and S., 143 feet; E. and W., 122 feet. The diam- 
eters of the summit-plateau in the same directions are 80 feet and 66 feet. "The 
sides of the mound face the cardinal points. The mound, so far as our trial-holes 
could determine, is of raw. clay and contains no trace of burials. There are 
almost no signs of former aboriginal occupancy in the surrounding fields. 
MOUNDS NEAR TURKEY POINT LANDING, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
In sight from Turkey Point Landing, in a cultivated field belonging to Mr. 
A. M. Scott, who lives farther inland, is a mound with circular base, somewhat 
more than 3 feet in height when measured from the outside, but showing a 
total depth of about 4 feet when the measurement was taken by means of a 
trial-hole from the surface to a dark stratum presumably the original base. 
The mound, which has been plowed over for a considerable time, and across 
part of which a private road passes, is composed wholly of dark soil. Its diameter 
was about 95 feet. In the southwestern part of this mound were numerous 
burials. Of eleven trial-holes put down, seven in this part of the mound and 
near it came upon human remains, and in removing these, other burials were 
found, making the total number thirty-six, all very badly decayed. 
Of these thirty-six burials, which seem to have been interred in graves from 
the surface and none of which lay at a depth greater than 26 inches, seventeen 
were extended at full length on the back; sixteen were bunched burials; and three 
were remains disturbed by the plow. None of the bunched burials had more than 
three skulls, though several of the larger burials of this class, which had been 
somewhat disturbed by cultivation on the mound, may have had more than 
that number originally. 
Various artifacts, mostly vessels of earthenware, lay with some of the burials 
of both classes. 
With a bunched burial was an undecorated, biconical pipe of earthenware, 
quadrangular in cross-section, a very ordinary type. 
With another bunched burial were three ear-plugs of claystone, not directly 
with the skull but near other bones. These ear-plugs, having cylindrical bodies 
with heads, include a pair, undecorated, each 2.1 inches in length. The other, 
2.2 inches long, has two incised, concentric circles on the head and an incised 
line surrounding the shank near the end. 
A small, rough arrowhead or knife, of flint, also lay near bones. 
Thirty-seven earthenware vessels, or large parts of them, (evidently some 
of the vessels had been struck in plowing), lay with the burials, usually with the 
skulls, even in the case of bunched burials, several vessels in some instances with 
а single burial. Numerous interments, however, were without artifact of any kind. 
