78 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
SITE NEAR TURKEY BLUFF, UNION PARISH. 
Immediately back of the landing at Turkey Bluff are low hills. On level 
ground, at some elevation above the bayou and in sight from it, is a field forming 
part of a place belonging to Mr. 8. J. Wall, of Wall Lake, La. This field, fallow 
at the time of our visit, had on the surface slight traces of former occupancy by 
aborigines and has the reputation of having been a camping-site for them. The 
made-ground, however, presumably had disappeared through cultivation and 
through wash, taking with it any burials that may have been present. 
SITE NEAR JOHNSON LANDING, UNION PARISH. 
About one-quarter mile in from Johnson Landing is the property of Mr. J. S. 
Meeks, resident upon it. On a cultivated field forming part of the place was 
some débris, among which were found several arrowpoints of flint. Mr. Meeks 
informed us that thirty years ago he had plowed up numerous human skulls in 
a part of this field, but that for a considerable time he had found no bones of 
any kind. 
A number of trial-holes put down at the spot designated by Mr. Meeks came 
upon no sign of burials, though a bicave of fine-grained sandstone, about 2 inches 
in diameter, was unearthed. Presumably at this place all burials had disappeared 
in the course of cultivation. 
SITE NEAR Rucas BLUFF, UNION PARISH. 
A site near Ruggs Bluff, consisting of a field on which were hammer-stones, 
bits of flint, and a few small fragments of pottery, was dug into by us but found 
to have lost by cultivation any superficial soil and burials it formerly may have 
had. 
SITE ON THE SCOTT PLACE, UNION PARISH. 
The Scott Place, on Bayou Corney, which, as stated, is an affluent of 
Bayou D'Arbonne, belongs to Mr. J. D. Baughman, of Farmerville, La. On 
this place, in full view from the stream, on ground far above the reach of the 
water, is a well-preserved, quadrangular mound, with angles slightly rounded 
by erosion. This mound, somewhat more than 11 feet in height, practically 
square, has a basal diameter of about 110 feet. Sixty feet, approximately, is the 
diameter of the summit-plateau. The four corners of this mound are not exactly 
directed toward the cardinal points, though they are within a few degrees of 
being so, the eastern corner, for instance, being somewhat south of east, about the 
direction the aborigines would obtain from the sun in winter. 
In the hope that superficial burials had been made in this mound, which 
evidently had been domiciliary, trial-holes were sunk over the summit-plateau, 
but almost at once reached hard, raw clay without any admixture of midden 
material. 
In sight from the mound just described, in a southerly direction from it, 
immediately at the farther side of the publie road, is a mound with a flat top, 
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