506 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
originally without summit-plateau, though recent use has caused some flattening. 
Height, 14.5 feet; diameter of base, 90 feet. 
Mound E, 22 yards NW. from Mound D and 90 yards E. by 8. from Mound A. 
Height, 7 feet; diameter of the circular base, 87 feet. The presence of buildings 
on this mound prevented investigation. 
Extending from the side of Mound E in a NW. direction is an irregular 
ridge about 270 feet long, 102 feet wide, having a maximum altitude of 6 feet, 
almost entirely covered with buildings. 
Trial-holes put down in various parts of the area surrounding the mounds 
failed to find artifaet or burial. 
MOUND ON THE CHANEY Prace, HICKMAN County, Ky. 
About two miles in a straight line eastwardly from the lower end of Wolf 
Island, near Little Obion river, on property of Mr. J. W. Chaney, living upon it, 
is a mound with summit-plateau in which are numerous burials of recent date. 
Height, 11 feet 4 inches; diameters of base, 120 feet and 135 feet. 
MOUNDS ON THE TURK PLACE, BALLARD County, Ky. 
On the estate of the late Mr. J. W. Turk, Bardwell, Ky., about 1.5 mile 
in an easterly direction from the lower end of Island No. 1, are three mounds 
which were courteously placed at our disposal by Mrs. Turk. These mounds 
have been plowed over for a number of years and are considerably modified in 
shape. 
Mound A, westernmost, running about N. and 8., has a flat top and is some- 
what less than 11 feet in height. Its basal measurements are: length, 182 feet; 
width, 134 feet. The plateau in the same directions is 115 feet and 64 feet. 
Mound B, of which the western end almost adjoins the northern end of 
Mound A, extends about east and west and consists apparently of two mounds 
united by a ridge slightly lower than the mounds themselves, which are entirely 
distinct from Mound A. The basal length of the mound, that is to say the ridge 
and itstwo extremities, is 283 feet; the width of the western end, 104 feet; that 
of the eastern end, 120 feet. The dimensions of the summit-plateau in corre- 
sponding directions, respectively, are 200 feet, 36 feet, and 40 feet. The height 
of the eastern end is 8 feet, and that of the western end, 13 feet. 
Mound C, about 36 yards east of Mound B, is 36 feet across its circular 
base; its height is about 6 feet, though its base, the original surface of the ground, 
was but 4 feet from the summit of the mound. 
A central excavation 12 feet square was carried to the base of this mound. 
Eighteen inches down were fragments of an object of wood copper-coated, whose 
original shape is not determinable. 
About 1.5 foot distant from this object, with no bones in association, though 
of course a burial may have been there, were the fragments of an undecorated 
water-bottle with wide mouth. Apparently originally inverted in the mouth 
