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Six vessels of earthenware came from this mound. 
One from near the surface apparently was not associated with human remains. 
Its body, hemispherical, is surmounted by а short, slightly everted neck. Тһе ware 
is inferior and no decoration is present. 
Another vessel, or large part of a vessel, had been decorated with deep, par- 
allel, encircling lines; two loop-handles were on opposite sides below the rim. 
With a burial were fragments of an undecorated vessel of poor ware, having 
loop-handles ; and with another burial, which had а few shell beads at the neck, 
were two vessels near the skull. One of these, undecorated, was in many small, 
disintegrating fragments. The other, badly broken and of soft, inferior ware, had 
been a bottle with the head of ап owl forming the neck. Тһе modeling is rude; 
the horns of the bird are missing through breakage. There are traces of red paint 
in places on the vessel. 
Another burial had fragments of an undecorated pot, lying near the skull. 
Burial No. 2, closely flexed on the left side, had, back of the spine, a mass of 
calcite wrought in the form of a cone 4.5 inches in length. 
Not in connection with burials, though possibly at one time they may have 
been so, were a rude arrowhead of white flint, а ** celt" of medium size, and a gouge 
6 inches in length. The two latter objects were presented by us to the owners of 
the mound. 
Two small, flat mounds in the neighborhood of the one just described were dug 
into by us without success. 
MOUNDS NEAR CLOVER BEND, LAWRENCE COUNTY. 
About three-quarters of a mile in a southerly direction from Clover Bend, in 
woods, but immediately on the border of a cultivated field, is a mound about 7 feet 
in height and 60 feet in diameter, on property of Messrs. F. W. Tucker & Co., 
whose mounds near Tucker Bay have just been described. 
This mound had been dug into extensively prior to our coming. No bones or 
fragments of pottery were to be seen in the material thrown out from previous ex- 
cavations or in the holes. 
When nine trial-holes had been sunk by us to depths between 3 and 5 feet 
without encountering bone or artifact, further search was deemed unnecessary. 
Three other small, flat mounds in the neighborhood yielded nothing to indicate 
other than a domiciliary use. 
MOUNDS NEAR LAURATOWN, LAWRENCE COUNTY. 
In a field of the Lauratown Farm, which belongs to Mrs. John K. Gibson, of 
Black Rock, Ark., about 200 yards from the river, are six mounds extending about 
one-half mile in a straight line in a southerly direction from Lauratown Landing. 
These mounds, ranging in height from 2 to 10 feet, have been greatly spread 
by long-continued cultivation. No fragment of human bone or of pottery was 
apparent on their surfaces. 
