ANTIQUITIES OF THE OUACHITA VALLEY. 167 
The sides of the mound, two of which аге parallel with the bayou, do not face 
the cardinal points nor are the corners of the mound directed toward them. 
Kleven trial-holes in the summit-plateau yielded neither bone nor artifact. 
About 75 yards east of this mound is a small pool of water which, no doubt, 
marks the site of an excavation made at the time of the building of the mound. 
In sight, in a northerly direction from the mound, is a ridge ending in an 
eminence about 7 feet in height, which evidently has been greatly spread by con- 
tinued cultivation. Thickly scattered over this ridge were fragments of pottery 
(including parts of several earthenware pipes), seventeen small arrowheads of chert, 
chert chips and other debris. A considerable number of trial-holes in this ridge 
were without return. 
Much digging was done by us in other parts of the field surrounding the mound, 
but without success except in one instance. Immediately beside the fence which 
separates the field from the highroad, about 100 yards N. by W. from the principal 
mound, was the remainder of a dwelling-site that had been mainly cut away by the 
road. The part which remained had been so greatly spread by long-continued cul- 
tivation that it was but little above the level of the field. 
Trial-holes at this place came at once upon burials and pottery, and the small, 
irregular area adjoining the fence was then completely dug out. 
Much disarrangement was apparent in burials found near the surface, and 
many skeletons, no doubt, had been entirely plowed away. Of fragmentary remains 
no account is taken in our enumeration. 
Thirteen skeletons were found, all of adults, all extended on the back, the 
heads directed toward various points. In addition, there were two layers of bones, 
and a bunched burial formed from the skeleton of one individual. The layers con- 
tained respectively fourteen and sixteen crania. In the larger number are included 
four skulls not immediately placed with the rest, but lying somewhat above them 
in the same pit. 
Also were found singly several skulls unconnected with other parts of the 
skeleton, and with two or three of these skulls were earthenware vessels. Some of 
the crania were at а depth too great to have been disturbed by cultivation. Possibly 
the position of these skulls was the result of aboriginal disturbance. 
All burials, seemingly had been made in pits, the deepest of which was 46 
inches. 
The condition of the bones was such that none was preserved with the excep- 
tion of part of a cranium. 
Burial No. 11, an extended skeleton, had, at the skull, a collection of objects 
more numerous than interesting, as follows: twenty pebbles; one bit of earthen- 
ware; three flakes of chert; a flat mass of sandstone; a small, flat fragment of 
sedimentary rock, apparently; a small, oblong mass of petrified wood. 
An arrowhead or knife, of chert, lay apart from human remains. 
With the burials were fourteen vessels of earthenware, all in fragments, with 
two or three exceptions. The vessels, as a rule, lay near skulls, though one was 
