58 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
MOUNDS NEAR HOPE LANDING, MADISON PARISH. 
About one-quarter mile in woods, in a westerly direction from Hope Landing, 
on property whose owner's name we were unable to learn, is a mound with 
rounded corners which are directed toward the cardinal points, somewhat of an 
exception, since, as we know, it is the sides of such mounds that usually are so 
oriented. This mound, which is square and near which is the usual depression 
filled with water, is 5.5 feet in height. Its diameter of base is 110 feet, the 
plateau varying between 60 and 70 feet. From the southeastern side a shoul- 
der, nearly square, projects 70 feet, measured from the summit-plateau of the 
mound. 
This mound, which was almost entirely of clay, yielded no sign of interment. 
Between the mound just described and the bayou is a circular rise, about 
75 feet in diameter and 18 inches in height. No evidence of the presence of 
artifacts or of bones was found in it. 
MOUNDS ох THE MONTGOMERY PLACE, MADISON PARISH. 
On the bank overlooking the water, on the Montgomery Place, of which 
Judge E. C. Montgomery, of Tallulah, La., is the owner, are two mounds. The 
larger, 5 feet in height, according to measurement from the outside, showed a 
distance of 5.5 feet from the summit to a dark basal line about 3 inches in thick- 
ness. This mound, hemispherical, having a diameter of 65 feet, without marked 
summit-plateau, looked what it proved to be, a veritable burial mound erected 
exclusively for mortuary purposes. 
Seven trial-holes all reached burials, almost immediately, and in the re- 
moval of these so many other burials were encountered that the central part of 
the mound was largely dug out. The excavation, it is hardly necessary to say, 
was carefully refilled, leaving the mound as much a place of refuge in case of 
high water as it had been before our arrival. 
The mound was made of a mixture of sand and clay. The burials, thirty-six 
in number, all very badly decayed, were present at all depths, some being just 
under the surface where apparently they had been disturbed by the plow some 
time in the past, though the mound is outside the cultivated part of the place 
at present. Other burials were at intermediate depths, and a number lay on the 
thin, dark stratum which marked the original surface of the ground. 
The burials were all of the bunched variety, one, however, lying upon, and 
probably including, the remains of a skeleton "Hh lay сем flexed on the 
right side. 
Four of the burials had been greatly disturbed in cultivation, one of them 
so much so that but part of a single bone remained, not enough to distinguish 
whether or not it was human, but as a celt lay with it, presumably the bone had 
formed part of a human сов. 
The remaining thirty-two burials included сгапіа as follows: 
