350 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
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This mound, about 2 feet high and 45 feet in diameter, was tentatively investi- 
gated by means of nine trial-holes which afterward were greatly enlarged. It 
became apparent that the central part of the mound had been used for burials; 
consequently a median portion, 24 feet in diameter, was completely dug out by us. 
Sixteen burials, all badly decayed, were found, none deeper than 2 feet from 
the surface. The burials were as follows: some closely flexed, some partly flexed, 
sometimes to the right side, sometimes to the left; a skull with scattered bones; a 
skull with a single thigh bone; a flexed skeleton without a skull, though an isolated 
cranium was found at a distance of 4 feet from it. 
But one artifact lay with these burials. Burial No. 4, the skull and thigh 
bone to which reference has been made, had with it a neatly-made pipe of massive 
red shale. 
Apart from burials were a rude mortar represented by a flat stone slightly con- 
cave, and a long, irregularly shaped mass of stone which evidently had served as a 
grinder. | 
A mass of quartzite, also from this mound, irregularly pitted in two places оп 
one side, has on the opposite side a circular concavity 5.25 inches in diameter and 
1 inch in depth. 
MOUNDS on THE Wamic PLACE, WHITE COUNTY. 
At this place, in full view from the river, are a low mound on which is a small 
building, and two small rises of the ground in a field nearby. 
The owner of this place did not live upon it, and failed to reply to our request 
for permission to investigate. 
MOUNDS ох THE HARALSON PLACE, WOODRUFF COUNTY. 
On property of Mr. John G. Haralson, of Fitzhugh, Ark., in swamp dry at the 
time of our visit, are five low, flat-topped mounds, all near the border of Buckle 
Lake, a former course of White river. 
These mounds, which had every appearance of having been domiciliary, were 
all dug into by us without discovery of anything indicating their former use as 
places of burial. 
Москов oN THE HAWKINS PLACE, WOODRUFF COUNTY. 
On the Hawkins Place, near the river, are two low, flat mounds, one of which 
18 now in use as a cemetery. These mounds were not investigated by us, permis- 
sion to dig not having been obtained. 
MOUND ON THE VINCENT PLACE, WOODRUFF COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile ESE. from Vincent Landing is a mound about 2.5 feet 
high. It is known as the Hickory Mound throughout the surrounding country. 
Conditions were imposed as to opening this mound, which we did not see our way 
clear to accept. 
