84 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 
Toward the NE. end of the cultivated field was a rise above the level of 
the surrounding territory, having a maximum height of 2 feet. The diameter 
was about 70 feet. It was apparent, however, that the height of the mound had 
been impaired through cultivation and that the consequent spreading of material 
had added to the original diameter. 
Over the surface was much midden débris, including a fragment of pottery 
on which was red pigment, and bits of human bones, among which was part of a 
lower jaw. 
With the aid of converging trenches it was determined that a space about 
27 feet by 43 feet contained what burials remained, most of which, it may be said, 
were found in the NE. part of the mound where, according to a former owner of 
the place, burials had been plowed up by him. 
The space described was completely dug out by us to a depth of from 2 to 3 
feet, where undisturbed material of light color was encountered. The mound - 
itself was mainly a brown mixture of sand and clay, the sand predominating. 
As the digging progressed, it became evident that the mound, when higher, 
had contained numerous burials, but that many of these, if not most of them, 
had been plowed away wholly or in part. Many parts of skeletons through which 
the plow had gone were encountered, and scattered bones also were numerous. 
The deepest burial was 14 inches down. 
Excluding recent disturbances and several aboriginal ones made by inter- 
section of graves, seven burials were encountered, all of adults and all extended 
on the back, except one which lay partly flexed on the right side, the head 
directed ENE. The other burials headed as follows: NE., 3; ENE., 2; SW., 1. 
With the burials were five vessels of inferior ware, broken and whole, and 
two vessels, similar to the others in quality, were met with apart from human 
remains. 
Most of the vessels exhibit some attempt at decoration, scanty as a rule and 
poorly executed. One pot has incised lines around the neck and a beaded margin; 
another has a scalloped neck and series of incised, festooned lines on the upper 
part of the body. Apart from bones was a small celt evidently smoothed from a 
pebble. 
In the northern corner of the field is a mound or a ridge of irregular shape 
and height. The maximum height slightly exceeds 2 feet; the greatest breadth 
is 100 feet. Тһе length of the ridge, which evidently increased under occupancy, 
is 740 feet approximately. Near each end of it is a kind of hump, that nearer 
the river having been the cemetery of the Fogle family, we were told by a former 
owner of the place. 
Holes sunk in the other hump passed through the dark, mixed material of 
the dwelling-site to hard clay at a depth of about one foot. In other parts of 
the ridge the mixed soil is deeper, sometimes reaching a depth of about 2 feet. 
Fragments of human bones were on the surface at one place, and there we came 
upon a badly decayed skeleton partly flexed on the right side, the head directed 
to the east. 
