488 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
MOUNDS AND SITE ON THE TERRELL PLACE, BALLARD County, Ky. 
Holloway is opposite Mound City, Ill. Following the road inland about- 
three-quarters of a mile from Holloway, on the property of Mr. James R. Terrell, 
Kevil, Ky., are two mounds, formerly quadrilateral with flat tops, now greatly 
trampled and washed. One of these, 24.5 feet high, has a diameter of base of 
173 feet E. and W. On the south side has been a causeway leading up to the 
mound, while on the north side is a causeway connecting the mound with the 
other one about 40 yards away. These causeways made impossible the deter- 
mination of the diameter of the base of the mound northerly and southerly. 
The second mound, 15 feet high and 172 feet N. and S., in diameter of base, 
has a frame structure upon it. 
As these mounds are of vital necessity in times of high water, no digging on 
them was attempted. 
In the same great field in which are the mounds are two ridges, on one of 
which are several humps. These ridges and humps, evidently made by the 
aborigines, had apparently been gathered from the rest of the field and piled, 
not deposited by the accretion of dwelling-site material, as very little debris 
was mingled with the clay composing them. One of the humps, extensively 
dug into by us, yielded neither artifact nor burial. Holes in the other ridge 
came upon, in one instance, a burial extended on the back, slightly more than 
3 feet deep. 
Pottery on the field was undecorated as a rule, though one fragment of thin 
ware was found, having a coating of erimson pigment, and another bore a design 
in relief, elliptical, possibly intended for an ear on an effigy vessel. 
MOUNDS AT MOUND CITY, ILLINOIS. 
Mound City, Ill., named after aboriginal high places formerly there, was 
visited by us, but the mounds, with the exception of one about 7 feet in height, 
had been removed to furnish material for the levee. "There is no history of the 
discovery of artifacts during the demolition of these mounds, and the remaining 
one, we learned, had been dug into without discovery of relies. 
DWELLING-SITE NEAR COLVIN LAKE, BALLARD County, Ky. 
This site, shown on our map of Mississippi river in this report, is about ten 
miles above Mound City but on the opposite side of the river. Colvin lake, 
about one-half mile back from the river, is itself part of a former course of the 
Ohio, but is now enclosed by land and called a lake, as it is the custom to do 
in such cases in the Mississippi valley and elsewhere. 
On the border of Colvin lake, on the property of Col. W. H. Viets, of La 
Center, is a large aboriginal dwelling-site having much debris on the surface, 
including fragments of pottery but with few other artifacts. Near the end of a 
ridge on which the dwelling-house on the property stands, in a cultivated field, 
