60 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
in depth and 32 inches in diameter. Within this fireplace was some charcoal 
and a number of objects of half-fired earthenware, rude, triangular pyramids in 
shape, from 3 to 4 inches in height. Twenty-five of these objects, which prob- 
ably were supports for vessels while cooking was in progress, and do not belong 
to that type of clay objects found by us in various other places this season, 
were practically unbroken, while many others, in fragments, were also present 
in the fireplace, in which, however, no parts of pottery vessels were found. 
These pyramids in no instance rest steadily on their bases, which are of 
irregular surface and often slightly convex. On examination, however, it is 
found that each of these supports has one side which is flat and on which it rests 
firmly. Consequently, the supports were so arranged, doubtless, that three or 
perhaps four of them, placed on their flat sides, could firmly support a vessel. 
In Fig. 26 are shown two of these objects, one on its base (on which it rested 
unsteadily) and one lying on the single side which is flat, the other sides being 
like the base, of uneven surface. 
A few feet from the mound just described was a small rise which proved to 
be of raw clay and yielded no evidence of having served as a place of burial. 
MOUNDS ON THE STEVENS PLACE, MADISON PARISH. 
In open woods on the Stevens Place, belonging to the Ashley Land Co., 
of Tallulah, La., in sight of each other, are two mounds, the road which borders 
the bayou passing between them. 
The larger, 4.5 feet in height, and 85 by 70 feet in diameters of base, proved 
on investigation to be of raw clay, with the exception of a small deposit of loam 
on the surface. No burials were found. 
The second mound, somewhat smaller than the other, had been scooped out 
like a saucer and as it commanded the water its shape is probably a relic of the 
Civil War. 
MOUNDS ON THE INSLEY PLACE, FRANKLIN PARISH. 
The Insley Place, belonging to Mr. W. T. Insley, of Delhi, La., has a group 
of mounds bordering the water, though they are not in line, one being on the 
opposite side of a road which skirts the bayou, while the other three directly 
overlook the stream. | 
Mound A, the northernmost, has been lessened in extent by the road on 
one side and by the bayou on the other, not directly by the action of water on its 
side, as this place was not submerged in the great flood of 1912, but by the effect 
of the bayou undermining the bank below. 
The mound, 4 feet in height, has a basal diameter of 65 feet through the 
part which still remains intact. Twelve trial-holes showed the mound to be of rich, 
brown loam and encountered two burials, both of the bunched variety, 30 inches 
and 18inches down, respectively. "The deeper burial had four skulls, two of which 
had belonged to children; the other, a single skull. No objeets were found with 
either burial. 
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