82 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
A little farther north is another mound which probably had been about 
circular, but though in thin woods, like this entire site, it most likely had been 
under cultivation at one time and had been plowed down considerably and 
extended. Its height is between 2 and 3 feet; its diameter, about 80 feet. It 
is composed of clay with an admixture of sand. 
Fic. 35.— Vessel of earthenware. Goulett Island. (Height 5.2 inches.) 
Twelve trial-holes sunk into what was probably the original mound, came 
upon human remains in many places, sometimes in two or three parts of a single 
hole. The burials were all near the surface, the deepest being but one foot 
down, while the rest were from 4 to 8 inches in depth. 
As may be supposed, most of the burials had been much disturbed by the 
plow; six, however, were unearthed nearly intact, although all were badly decayed. 
These six skeletons lay extended on the back; two heading 8.; three, S. by W.; 
one, SSW. 
At the right of the skull of one skeleton was a pot of inferior ware, having by 
