264 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
CEMETERIES ON THE WHITEHALL PLACE, LEE County. 
The Whitehall Plantation, one of four kindly placed at our disposal by Messrs. 
Banks and Harrelson (Lem Banks and W. H. Harrelson), of Memphis, Tenn., is 
bordered on one side by St. Francis river and on the opposite side by the Missis- 
sippi, the rivers at this place not being much more than two miles apart. 
About one mile in a NW. direction from Franks Landing оп the St. Francis is 
a mound, 11 feet in height, in a cultivated field belonging to the plantation. The 
basal outline is irregular, the principal diameters being 105 feet and 125 feet. The 
summit-plateau is 50 feet by 67 feet. This mound, which has every appearance of 
having been domiciliary, was dug into by us with negative results in the endeavor 
to ascertain if superficial burials had been made in the plateau. 
Adjacent to the mound is a tract of land said to be above high water at all 
seasons. In this tract, about 40 yards in a northerly direction from the mound, an 
earthenware vessel was discovered some distance below the surface by the aid of a 
sounding-rod, and later, with the help of trial-holes, an area roughly elliptical in 
outline, 38 feet by 27 feet, was defined as containing burials. This space, rich, 
alluvial deposit, was practically dug through by us, such parts only being left undug 
as were too small to contain a burial without discovery. 
The burials, twelve in number, lay from 8 inches to 26 inches below the 
surface. They had suffered through decay to an extent that made preservation 
impossible. Their positions were as follows: 
Partly flexed on the right side (including one adolescent) 
Partly flexed on the left side ; 
Children, position undetermined  . ; š : ; З 
Burial No. 3 lay with the trunk оп the back, the thighs and legs partly flexed 
to the left side. 
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Fic. 1.—Pipe of earthenware. With Burial No. 3. Whitehall Place. (Full size.) 
