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ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS. 93 
mounds in sight one from another, one in the field, the other just beyond its 
limits, in the woods. 
The mound in the field has been under cultivation and is greatly spread 
in consequence. Its height is about 4.5 feet; the diameter of its base, which is 
roughly circular, is about 90 feet. Trial-holes in this mound came upon compact, 
yellow clay. No burial or artifact of any kind was met with. 
The mound in the woods, about 7.5 feet in height, is of irregular basal 
outline, its diameter being perhaps about 115 feet. Practically no sign of abori- 
ginal occupancy was noticed in the field. 
About one-quarter mile SW. from the field just described is another, a 
small one belonging to the same owner. In one part of this field was considerable 
midden débris; the soil was black and had a promising appearance. A human 
skull was said to have been plowed up at this place. "Trial-holes, however, soon 
came upon underlying yellow clay and no burials were discovered. 
SITE NEAR SUTTON Ferry, BRADLEY COUNTY. 
Following the road about one-quarter mile im from Sutton Ferry, on property 
of Mr. B. H. Ozment, who lives at the ferry but on the side of the river opposite 
from the field, is cultivated land having in its vicinity a number of small, low, 
irregular mounds such as are so often found on aboriginal sites in Arkansas and 
in which burials seldom are discovered. 
On the surface of the field was considerable midden débris, which included 
many arrowheads of flint, mostly rude, some being simply flakes given the out- 
line of projectile points. No burials were found by us in this field, though a 
place of burial in it or near it most probably was there in the past. 
At Sutton Ferry, said to be nine or ten miles by water from the railroad 
bridge near Warren, Ark., which is the end of navigation on Saline river, our 
investigation of that stream came to an end, the reports of our agents as to sites 
to the northward not being of a nature to warrant further search. 
