ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 61 
Apart from the bones were a good-sized arrowpoint of flint and three of 
those objeets of earthenware of which a number were found throughout the 
season. 
This mound was somewhat puzzling, as one would expect, with all the digging 
done, to have come upon more burials. 
Mound B, a short distance below Mound А, has been quadrangular, but its 
shape has been so greatly altered by the making of the road, by wash of rain, 
and by the caving bank of the bayou, that it has no uniformity of outline. One 
diameter, that parallel with the road and with the river, and which no doubt 
gives some idea of the original size of the mound, is 215 feet. The altitude is 
24 feet. "Tlrial-holes came at once on raw clay; and great sections of the mound, 
exposed by wash, showed no signs of its use for burial purposes. 
Mound C, a short distance below Mound B, is at present little more than 
a hump of compact clay. 
Mound D, across the road, in a field, 10.5 feet in height, is fairly symmetrical. 
It is quadrangular, with an extensive summit-plateau in which, unfortunately, 
numbers of burials have been made in comparatively recent years. The mound 
does not exactly face the cardinal points, the longer side extending N. by W. 
апа S. by E.; the shorter side, of course, E. by N. and W. by S. In the di- 
rections given, respectively, the diameters of base are 175 feet and 135 feet, 
and those of the summit-plateau, 140 feet and 70 feet. 
The cultivated fields on this place gave no evidence of former aboriginal 
occupancy, nor was there any history there of the discovery of bones or of arti- 
facts. 
THE MOUND PLACE, MADISON PARISH. 
The Mound Place is referred to here only to explain that what is considered 
a mound at this place is a tongue of the high land beginning on the opposite 
side of the bayou, and which, cut off by the stream, reappears as the so-called 
mound on the Mound Place. The few bits of pottery and occasional arrowheads 
picked up on the surface are relics of the time when this high ground was utilized 
by the aborigines. 
MOUNDS ON THE LAKE PLACE, MADISON PARISH. 
About 2.5 miles SE. from Delhi, but on the opposite side of Bayou Maçon, 
on the eastern bank of Joe’s Bayou lake, in a field on property belonging to Mr. 
Michael Crudgington, who resides there, is a site including four mounds and 
several low rises and ridges. 
Mound A, the farthest north on the lake, is a rectangular mound that has 
been plowed over and has suffered from wash and from trampling of cattle. 
Its sides about face the cardinal points. The mound is 10 feet in height; the 
basal diameters are 125 feet and 104 feet, and those of the summit-plateau 68 
feet and 57 feet. As the mound had been planted over, but two trial-holes were 
dug, both showing raw, yellow clay. 
