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former occupancy, and digging in these parts did not indicate a great depth of mid- 
den deposit. 
The westernmost elevation, however, a ridge about 6 feet high and 125 feet by 
225 feet in extent, had over the surface bits of pottery and fragments of human 
bones, and Mr. Turnbow told of burials that had been uncovered there by the plow. 
Eighteen trial-holes in this ridge came upon only a single burial, with an un- 
decorated bottle at the skull. 
It is probable that this ridge, which the owner informed us had been under 
cultivation for more than forty years, had, in the course of time, yielded to the 
plow, and perhaps to curiosity hunters, most of the burials it once contained, 
MOUND ох THE LINDSAY PLACE, POINSETT COUNTY. 
The Lindsay Place, which has been recently cleared of timber, belongs to Mr. 
J. W. Lindsay, who lives upon it. A short distance from the landing, in a culti- 
vated field and near the road which borders the river, is a flat mound about 3 feet 
in height and 30 feet in diameter. 
Eight out of nine trial-holes in this mound reached raw clay containing no 
mixture of midden-refuse, when at a short distance from the surface. The ninth 
hole, when about 16 inches down, came upon a large fireplace marked by clay burnt 
almost to the hardness of brick. This clay in places had a maximum thickness of 
about 4 inches. 
Тһе bed of burnt clay had upon it, in one place, a layer gray in color, com- 
posed of ashes with a slight admixture of clay. This deposit, irregular in outline, 
was about 2 feet square, roughly speaking. Its maximum thickness was about 5 
inches, though the deposit became much thinner toward the edges. This deposit 
of ashes did not cover the fireplace, but was found on it only in one place. 
Just beside the deposit, but not in it, resting on the fireplace in an upright 
position, was a pot having the lower two-thirds filled with very dark clay and frag- 
ments of the cremated bones of a child—a cremation which had been thoroughly 
done, compared with many aboriginal ones, as the major part of the deposit was 
hardly more than powder, while the larger fragments were less than an inch in 
diameter and were exceptional. 
The upper third of the vessel was filled with the ordinary clay from the mound, 
and the part below, much darker than the clay above, presumably was made up of 
a mixture of the cremated bones, ashes, small fragments of burnt clay from the fire- 
place, and a slight infiltration of clay from above. 
Beside this urn-burial were the fragments of a bowl. 
Considerable digging was done in connection with this burial to discover 
whether other burials had been made in its vicinity, but none was encountered. 
We are unable to determine if the fireplace in this mound was simply one 
similar to so many fireplaces found in this region, where the aborigines have lived, 
and the urn-burial was placed upon it merely by accident, or if the fireplace marked 
the site of the cremation, and the fireplace and the mound itself were made expressly 
for the one burial. 
