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CEMETERY ON THE Forrest PLAcE, LEE Country. 
Going inland from Forrest Place Landing about three-quarters of a mile in a 
southwesterly course (or considerably more by the winding road), that part of the 
Forrest Place is reached which belongs to Mr. Stephen Blackstone, of Macomb, Ш. 
The surface of the cultivated part of Mr. Blackstone’s property is strewn with 
midden-debris, including numerous small arrowheads of flint? and bits of pottery, 
some of which latter, of thin ware, still are colored a brilliant red. 
There is considerable history of the finding of human bones and of pottery 
vessels all over the Forrest Place, which borders the low hills that there approach 
the river. Colored tenants showed us two earthenware vessels that had been 
ploughed up by them, one of which, somewhat broken after its discovery, evidently 
had been of the “teapot” variety, though the spout was missing when the vessel 
was recovered by us in the field where it had been left by the discoverer. 
This vessel differs somewhat in details from the “teapot” vessel found in 
regions farther south, in that it has a flat base projecting somewhat, and a neck of 
the compound form resembling a small cup. 
In a part of the field where debris was thickest and where the soil was dark- 
est, considerable digging was done by us, resulting in the discovery of six burials. 
These burials, however, were so widely separated that the place could hardly be 
considered a cemetery in the strict sense of the word. 
The burials lay in pits, the deepest 3 feet from the surface. The condition of 
the bones was such that no skulls could be saved, most of the burials, in fact, being 
hardly more than decaying fragments of bone. Three burials lay closely flexed on 
the left side, the head of one being bent forward on the chest. 
Burial No. 5 lay with the trunk on the back, the thighs flexed upward in a 
manner to raise the knees considerably above the level of the trunk, the legs flexed 
closely against the thighs. 
Burial No. 6 had the trunk twisted, the lower part being on the back and the 
upper part on the right side. The thighs were partly flexed and widely everted, 
while the legs were partly flexed, the feet being together. The head rested on the 
right shoulder. 
One skeleton, that of a child, was badly decayed. 
Twelve vessels were found by us in the digging, lying at various parts of the 
skeletons, never more than two with a burial, though three vessels were found 
together with no bones in association. 
In the soil, apart from human remains, was a pebble of quartzite,” flat, nearly 
round, about 2.2 inches in diameter and .3 inch in thickness, having near the mar- 
gin a perforation for suspension. 
1 Unless otherwise specified, the term “flint” is used in this report as a general name for the mate- 
rial of objects made of chert, hornstone, chalcedony, opal, and other silicious materials, including the 
rock known as novaculite, found abundantly in southwestern Arkansas. 
? Professor R. A. Е. Penrose, Jr., who for several years was connected with the Geological Survey 
of Arkansas, and who kindly determined for us the rocks of which the objects of stone found by us 
last season are made, writes: “It is evident that most of the implements you showed me might have 
been made from materials found in Arkansas ° * * . The massive shale, the slate, the limestone, the 
sandstone, the quartzite, the flint, the chert, the quartz and the calcite, from which many of the imple- 
ments were made, are found abundantly in that State.” 
