82 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
eaten away by the river in recent years, according to the Messrs. Poole Brothers, 
owners of the plantation, and resident there. During the process of destruction, 
according to these gentlemen, many human bones, some associated with vessels of 
earthenware, have been laid bare. 
A number of holes were sunk by us in a small area on the river bank, having 
a deep gully behind it, this area being apparently all that remained of the original 
cemetery. 
Human bones were found in three places—two skeletons at length on the back, 
and a few fragments of bone, all in the last stage of decay. With the last burial 
was a pot of moderate size, of porous, inferior ware, with a rude decoration of 
straight lines and punctate markings. 
In an adjacent field were two small dwelling-sites in which a number of trial- 
holes were dug by us, in addition to a number in other parts of the field, all, how- 
ever, being of no avail. 
MOUNDS NEAR PIGEON HILL, UNION COUNTY, ARK. 
Pigeon Hill, a settlement on land not subject to overflow, has, behind it, in 
woods belonging to Mr. W. H. Harry, then living on the place but now a resident 
of Texarkana, Texas, a great number of low mounds, some circular in basal outline, 
some irregular. 
A number of these mounds were dug into by us and were found to be of clayey 
sand of a raw yellow color, without admixture of organic matter. No bones or 
artifacts were encountered. The mounds, presumably, were sites for wigwams, 
intended to protect them against inflow of rain which is likely to gather in pools 
on the ground. 
CEMETERY IN Воүтт’ѕ FIELD, UNION County, ARK. 
. Boytt's Field, the property of Mr. W. H. Harry, whose place we have just 
m is on the river bank about one mile in a W. by N. direction from Pigeon 
The field, almost exclusively of sand (in which one is so much less likely to 
break artifaets and bones in digging than is the case in clay), is, we are informed 
by Mr. Harry, fifty acres in extent and is fractional NW. quarter, Section 32, 
Township 16 south, Range 12 west. 
In the northeastern part of the field are the remains of a mound much spread 
Әу cultivation, in Which no bones or artifacts were discovered by us. 
Members of Mr. Harry's family, however, with considerable shrewdness for 
persons inexperienced in investigations of the sort, had dug shortly before our 
arrival, into the level ground about forty yards E. by S. from the mound, where 
the soil looked darker than elsewhere in the field, and had found there three skele- 
tons in fairly good condition. 
_ Three days and а half were devoted by us to a careful investigation of Boytt's 
Field, resulting in the discovery of burials here and there, within an area of about 
