56 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
clay and sand) was of a raw appearance and gave no encouragement to look 
for burials, and neither bone nor artifact was found in them. 
The summit-plateau of Mound F was composed of dark soil, which yielded 
twenty-six burials to eight trial-holes, some of these burials, of course, being 
found in the enlargement of the original holes in the process of removing burials. 
The rich, dark soil of the summit-plateau, evidently a later addition to the 
mound, was variously between 4 and 5 feet in depth. Below it was a dark stra- 
tum about 6 inches thick, doubtless marking the one-time surface of the mound. 
Presumably such burials as we found in the dark soil had been buried from the 
present surface of the plateau, as some were between 8 inches and 16 inches deep. 
Pits, however, were not distinguishable in this homogeneous soil, which had been 
subject to no admixture on removal. 
A number of graves, however, had been put down from the original surface, 
and these were easily traced, as the graves had been dug into clay, often in local 
strata differing in shade, so that the material, when returned, had a mottled 
appearance. For example, the bottom of the grave of Burial No. 20, the deepest 
found, was 6.5 feet below the present surface. At this part of the mound the 
dark stratum marking the earlier period of occupancy was 4 feet 3 inches from the 
present surface of the mound, so that the grave originally had been 2 feet 3 inches 
in depth. 
It is difficult to compile a statement of the twenty-six burials found in 
Mound F, as some of them were of a composite character, a mingling of bones 
placed with burials at length. So nearly as could be determined, however, the 
burials were: 
At full length on the back, 5. 
Bunched burials, 19. 
Single skulls, 2. 
Of the bunched burials: seven had one skull each; one had two skulls; three 
had three skulls; one, four skulls; one, six skulls; one, seven skulls; one, nine 
skulls; one, ten skulls; one, thirteen skulls; one, sixteen skulls; one, twenty skulls. 
Of the extended burials, three were associated with collections of bones 
which might be termed bunched burials, though account has not been taken 
of them as such in our enumeration. Those in question had respectively: one 
skull, two skulls, four skulls. 
The bones in this mound were badly decayed, and when erania from it are 
spoken of reference is made to what once were skulls, though when found but 
little may have been left of them. 
We shall now describe in detail some of the more interesting burials from 
Mound F. 
Burial No. 9, an extended skeleton, 32 inches from the surface, had im- 
mediately with it a number of mingled bones, among which were two skulls. 
Near one of these four small arrowheads of flint were found, perhaps part of a 
deposit, the rest of which had been thrown out by the digger, though careful 
search with a sieve failed to yield additional ones. 
