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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 75 
him or may long ago have disappeared from the surface, since fragments of bones 
are far more subject to disintegration and to decay than are pottery fragments. 
A description has been given of Mound F on the lower part of the Motley 
Place which, as stated, is adjacent to, and above, the Poverty Point Plantation. 
About one mile N. by E. from Mound F, across part of the cultivated portion 
of the Motley Place and in view from Mound F, is another mound, 51 feet in 
height, and somewhat resembling the great mound on Poverty Point, as it is in 
the form of a ridge, but in this instance extending E. and W. It presents a steep 
side to the north. From the southern side of the mound, below the upper part 
Vic. 33.—Implement of flint. Motley Place. Fic. 34.—Charm-stone of chalcedony. Motley Place. 
“ull size.) (Full size.) 
of the ridge, is an extension sloping downward to the south until it reaches a 
level terrace 50 feet in width and somewhat less than 6 feet in height. This 
terrace, very symmetrical, slopes to eastward and westward, and seemingly 
joins the general level at the extremities. 
In places in the mound are deep gullies wrought by wash of rain over clay 
insufficiently protected by roots of trees, which have impaired the symmetry 
of parts of the mound. Nevertheless, this superb earthwork, on its terrace 
facing the plain to the south, has the appearance of a great temple, and such 
probably it was. 
So nearly as can be determined, the diameters of the mound at the present 
time are: №. and S., 400 feet (including the extension but not the terrace); E. and 
W., 560 feet. 
An examination of the gullies which have laid bare large sections of the 
mound and do more to aid examination of the earthwork than a long period of 
