ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 97 
MOUND AND SITES NEAR PyLE'S LANDING, CALHOUN County, ARK. 
About one-quarter mile in a northerly direction from Pyle's Landing, in a field 
formerly under cultivation but untilled at the time of our visit, 18 day 
mound with a circular base, 7 feet 6 inches in height and 80 feet in diameter. The 
summit-plateau, also circular, is 34 feet across. 
As this mound evidently was domiciliary and is said to be the only refuge for 
stock in times ofoverflow, we contented ourselves with a number of trial-holes dug 
into the summit-plateau, which, beyond showing the mound to be of clay with ч 
slight admixture of sand in that part, were without result. 
A number of trial-holes were put down by us in the field surrounding the 
mound, but without success—a result anticipated by us, as this locality is said to 
be several feet under water each flood season. 
MOUND AND CEMETERY AT KENT, OUACHITA County, ARK. 
In sight of the railroad station at Kent, about two miles above Camden, on 
property of the Barlow and Kent Company, of Urbana, Ohio, is a quadrangular 
mound having modern burials in its summit-plateau. This mound, 18 feet 6 inches 
in height, somewhat irregular in outline through wash of rain, probably at the time 
of its building was square as to its base and summit-plateau, which at present have 
diameters respectively of 147 feet and 66 feet. 
The sides practically face the cardinal points. 
The surrounding area is said to have been long under cultivation, and a tomb- 
stone on the mound marks a decease in 1852. At present, however, there is a 
growth of timber over most of the place. | | 
Хо attempt was made by us to excavate the mound, which was evidently 
domiciliary, but as there was knowledge of several aboriginal burials discovered 
while digging preparatory to the erection of sheds (which are in sight from the 
mound) for the shelter of stock, we decided to dig in the barnyard, and found one 
skeleton there. 
Immediately south of this barnyard, however, burials were more plentiful, 
forty-four being found in a comparatively small area, while two others were un- 
earthed near the boiler-house belonging to the Company, which is at some distance 
from the sheds. 
Owing to the previous cultivation of the ground, no doubt, the burials lay near 
the surface, the deepest being but 15 inches down, and most of them less than one 
foot in depth. 
The condition of the bones was such, through decay, that many evidently had 
entirely disappeared, and although in some cases skeletons were in place when 
found, the bones crumbled into minute fragments upon removal. There had been 
also aboriginal disturbance, grave cutting through grave, and much recent inter- 
ference through contact with the plow. However, in cases where there remained 
enough of the skeleton for determination, burial at full length on the back was 
indicated. | 
13 JOURN. А. N. 8. РНША., VOL. XIV. 
