AND BLACK RIVERS, ARKANSAS. 309 
MOUNDS AND CEMETERY AT NEELEY’s Ferry, Cross County. 
At Neeley's Ferry is the plantation of Mr. Starland W. Wood, of Earle, Ark., 
which is known as the Starwood Place in contradistinction to that of Mr. J. G. 
Wood, of Togo, of whom we already have had occasion to speak. 
The Starwood Place for years has been famous for the number of antiquities 
found there, and in consequence it has been for an equal period a Mecca for collect- 
ors and for dealers in aboriginal pottery, who have been far from idle while visiting 
the place. 
About eighty acres are said to be under cultivation at the Starwood Place, 
much of which consists of ridges 
and of rising ground, including sev- 
eral irregular mounds, all of which, 
no doubt, had their origin through 
long-continued aboriginal occu- 
pancy. 
The principal mound at this 
place, near the river bank, is 18 
feet in height, measured from the 
road on the west. The mound has 
suffered to such an extent by the 
making of this road (which partly 
surrounds its base) and through 
wash of water, that a statement 
as to the present diameter of the 
mound would be misleading. 
Owing to its use as a place of 
burial in recent times, but little dig- 
ging in this mound was attempted 
by us. We found in it, however, one 
burial with shell beads at the neck 
and ear-plugs of shell near the skull. р, 34 Vessel No. 64. Jones Place. (Height 6.25 inches.) 
Over all the surface of the culti- 
vated ground at the Starwood Place (and the entire place is under cultivation 
except the upper parts of two mounds) are fragments of bones, human and of lower 
animals, and innumerable bits of pottery and other debris from dwelling-sites. 
Evidently many burials and their accompanying artifacts have been destroyed 
at this place during years of cultivation, while the work of curiosity seekers was 
too often evident throughout our investigation. 
The very size of this site stood in the way of a thorough search, for, as was 
evident, the aborigines had lived over most of it and had buried beneath their 
dwellings and not in any particular spot. 
Digging was done by us in all places that seemingly offered promise of reward 
(except in considerable areas devoted to the cultivation of alfalfa and where build- 
