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mound was a rude pot. All earthenware vessels with burials at this place were іп 
the neighborhood of the skulls. 
Apparently this mound has lost many burials during its cultivation. More- 
over, а prominent trader in pottery is said to have worked successfully at the place. 
THE JONES AND Borum PLaAces, Cross COUNTY. 
About two miles above Togo, but on the opposite side of the river, are two 
adjoining places, one belonging to Dr. C. C. Borum, of Earle, Ark., extending to 
the water’s edge, the other, the property of Mrs. J. W. Jones, of Jamestown, Ark., 
lying back of the Borum Place. 
Passing through woods belonging to the Borum Place, one reaches the culti- 
vated ground belonging to the two properties, on part of which are many rises and 
ridges, with a symmetrical mound, 8 feet high and 50 feet across the base, centrally 
placed. Much of the high ground belonging to these places is artificial, being the 
slow accumulation of long periods of aboriginal occupancy, 
Digging was done by us in a tentative way over the principal high places 
throughout, and in such places as yielded returns we conducted work as extensive 
as is permissible in bottom land where mounds may not be permanently interfered 
with. 
Burials were found almost everywhere in the higher ground, but interments 
had been made singly or perhaps two or three near together, and not in groups. 
At this place also traces of the work of others were met with, and it was 
evident that digging had been carried on here to a considerable extent. 
Forty-eight burials were found by us at these places, of which sixteen were of 
adults; twenty-five were of infants or of older children; two, of adolescents. Four 
were disturbances, aboriginal or modern. One burial is not particularly described 
in our note-book. 
The form of burial, when determined (with the exception of that of an adult 
which was partly flexed on the right side), was at full length on the back. 
But few artifacts except pottery lay with burials. Under an inverted vessel 
with the skeleton of an infant, was a small arrowhead of flint. 
Burial No. 17, an adult, had at the skull two bottles, one of which had a neck 
which, broken in aboriginal times, had been neatly smoothed around to remove the 
rough surface of the break. Across the skull were fragments of sheet-copper, while 
shell beads were at the top of the head as if possibly they had been connected with 
the copper ornament. At both wrists were beads of shell. 
An adult skeleton had a mass of red clay lying at the left wrist. 
The skeleton of a child had at the skull a bottle and a bowl. In the latter 
vessel was a rudely pitted discoidal stone. 
Burial No. 40, a child, which lay 40 inches below the surface (as deep as any 
burial at the Jones and Borum places), had with it a bottle and a bowl. Shell 
beads were at the neck, with which was a marine shell, a young Zz/gur perversum, 
perforated at the beak. 
