90 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
CEMETERY AT BELL GIN LANDING, UNION County, ARK. 
Extending back from Bell Gin Landing is a ridge of high ground, flat on the 
summit, lying between swamp land which is dry in low stages of the river. This 
high ground, long under cultivation in the past, was fallow when visited by 
us. The owner, Mr. J. S. Staples, resides about one mile distant, at the town of 
Champagnolle. | 
Considerable digging in this territory showed rich soil in places, evidently 
darkened by aboriginal occupancy. Three burials were unearthed—one partly 
flexed on the left side, one at full length on the back, one a disturbance, near 
together and all without artifact of any kind. 
Apart from human bones, in the soil, were a small “celt” smoothed only 
toward the cutting edge, the remainder left rough for hafting, and two implements 
of bone. 
MOUNDS NEAR Нил, LANDING, UNION County, ARK. 
Near Hill Landing, on property of Mr. N. T. Goodwin of Calion, Ark., are 
various low mounds of irregular shape, probably domiciliary. 
About one-quarter mile WNW. from the landing is a field, probably about 
twelve acres in extent, having at its northern and its southern ends two small 
mounds, that at the northern end being partly within the field, while the other 
mound is immediately outside the fence. These mounds, which had been much 
trampled by stock, were dug into by us without result, the soil having a raw yellow 
shade. The field evidently had been an aboriginal place of abode, as there lay 
scattered around: bits of pottery; fragments of chert; part of a quartz crystal, 
somewhat broken, grooved for use as a pendant; two small “ celts,” seemingly of 
sedimentary rock; one chipped cutting implement of chert; four small masses of 
magnetite, one of which shows considerable grinding down at one end; a number 
of small arrowheads, some of chert, some of chalcedony, one very neatly made, 
only .4 of inch in length. 
To our disappointment considerable digging in this field yielded no sign of 
burial, and it became evident that the dark soil showing former occupancy was of 
little depth in places, while in others it had entirely disappeared. Тһе field, on а 
slope, probably had lost by long cultivation and wash of rain, the cemetery that 
presumably once was there. | 
Москов Ат THE BOONE PLACE, CALHOUN COUNTY, ARK. 
At the Boone Place, which has a landing that takes its name from the place, 
is а mound with an exposed section on the river's bank, а part having been eaten 
away by the stream. 
A photograph of this mound, shown in half-tone reproduction in Fig. 91, illus- 
T a point to which we have before referred, namely, the inability to give any 
idea of the height of a mound by the aid of photography, this mound being 12.5 
feet above the surrounding level ground. : 
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