ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 69 
east, is a mere remnant of a mound (£), about 6 feet in height, part of which 
has fallen into the bayou and another portion of which has been destroyed by a 
road. Incidentally we will say here that careful digging into this mound showed 
it to be entirely of mixed soil down to a base about 6 feet below the surface. In 
this soil was midden débris, here and there, but no sign of human remains. 
Mound B, 186 yards! 5. by Е. from Mound А, 9 feet in height, has been under 
cultivation, and owing to wash of rain on plowed ground it has been greatly eroded 
and is, in consequence, of very irregular outline. Presumably it has been about 
square with a great summit-plateau. Its diameter of base is about 300 feet. 
This mound is of bright, vellow clay. 
Mound C, 500 yards N. by E. from Mound B, is a well-preserved mound, 
7 feet in height, in the form of a truncated cone, the diameter of base being 90 
feet, that of the summit-plateau, 26 feet. This mound has every appearance of 
having served for burials in aboriginal times, being steep and composed of dark 
soil. Unfortunately, it has been honeycombed by burials in recent years. 
Mound D, 150 yards E. by N. from Mound С, is slightly more than 4 feet 
in height. Its irregularly circular base is slightly more than 100 feet across. 
This mound, which overlooks the bayou, has served as a cemetery in the past and 
grave-stones enclosed by an iron railing are upon its plateau. 
Mound Z has been described. 
Mound F is 430 yards N. from Mound A, in woods bordering a field in the 
lower part of the Motley Place, the other mounds described being on the Poverty 
Point Plantation. This symmetrical mound, 21 feet 6 inches in height and 195 
feet in diameter of base, is conical, with almost no flattening at the summit. 
It is evident from its shape that whatever the purpose for its erection was, it 
cannot have been intended for a domiciliary mound. Seemingly it is composed of 
raw, yellow clay, and probably is without superficial burials. It may have 
been erected over some personage of note. Unfortunately, neither our time 
nor our force of men was sufficient to undertake the demolition of a mound like 
this. 
These are the mounds (all of which but one we dug into to some extent) at 
present forming the group on or near the Poverty Point Plantation. Another 
mound on the Motley Place will be described in due course. 
It is entirely possible that Professor Lockett regarded as hills the huge 
mound on the Poverty Point Plantation and the great mound on the Motley 
Place, yet to be described, an error which could easily be made by an untrained 
observer, and that the figures as to height given by him as to a mound on the 
Motley Place refer to the mound on that place already described by us. 
About these mounds and between them is cultivated ground on which are 
numerous low ridges on which, in profusion, lay at the time of our visit, aboriginal 
artifacts and débris, mainly pebbles ; fragments and flakes of flint; arrowpoints, 
spearheads, and knives, of the same material, some entire; several celts; “ plum- 
! The distances between these mounds were paced. 
5 JOURN. ACAD. NAT. SCI PHILA., VOL.XVI. 
