92 ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 
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As this mound evidently was domi Шагу, digging into it o the 
ummit-plateau, in an unsuccessful attempt to discover a cemetery there. 
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In woods, about 175 yards N. by W. from Mound A, was a very symmetrical 
mound (B) with circular base having a diameter of 52 feet. The summit, also cir- 
cular, was 19 feet in diameter. | i 
The height of this mound, taken from the level of surrounding territory, 
slightly exceeded 7 feet. Later, a measurement from about the middle of the 
каш to what seemed to be undisturbed sand at the base of the mound, showed a 
depth of 9.5 feet. Presumably there had been a superficial deposit of mold and of 
sand on the area surrounding the mound, thus diminishing the height. 
This mound was completely dug away by us to a depth slightly less than 10 
feet from its top, except a very limited portion around a tree at the margin of 
the mound, which was left standing. | 
The mound, in which trial-holes came at once upon human remains, was 
composed mainly of sand containing an admixture of clay—a small proportion 
in the upper part. In the lower central part, however, the percentage of clay 
increased until toward the base of the mound the material was almost wholly 
clay. I. 
Human remains were encountered throughout the mound, beginning almost at 
the margin, at various depths, from well up toward the summit to the base and 
even below it. 
Skeletal remains in this mound were so badly decayed that even in the burials 
best preserved only crumbling fragments of the larger bones or of teeth remained. 
Not a trace of vertebra, small bone, or rib (with a single exception to be noted 
later), or of the articular parts of any bones was encountered throughout the entire 
mound. Most frequently skulls represented by decaying fragments of bone or by 
remains of teeth, were all that remained of the burials. U 
Fifty-two skulls or traces of skulls were met with in the mound, but as it was 
customary in this region to bury earthenware vessels near the skull, and as a num- 
ber of vessels were found apart from human remains, presumably some skulls had 
entirely disappeared, and hence the original number of burials had been in excess 
of the number of skulls given in our enumeration. 
A small deposit of fragments of bones, all split, none human, lay at a con- 
siderable depth in the mound. 
Other than earthenware vessels, few artifacts were encountered. A barbed 
arrowhead and an arrowhead or knife, both of chert, came from the mound, as did 
a disk, wrought from the base of an earthenware vessel, 3 inches in diameter, with 
a central perforation. 
There were found also a chisel wrought from a chert pebble, about 6 inches 11 
length, having part of the side and edge broken away, and two chisels together, 
one about 3 inches in length, the other somewhat less, each made from a pebble of 
chert and having a well ground, convex, cutting edge. 
