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All vessels from this place seemingly were the work of potters without artistic 
ambition and lacking in care or skill. 
MOUND NEAR CORNPEN LANDING, LAWRENCE COUNTY. 
This mound, about one mile in an ESE. direction from Cornpen Landing, the 
property of Mr. Clay Sloan, of Black Rock, Ark., shows no traces of the plow. Ив 
height is 5 feet 3 inches; its diameter, 45 feet. The sides are comparatively steep, 
giving the mound the appearance of a cone truncated near the base, In the sum- 
mit-plateau are two comparatively recent graves. 
Nine trial-holes, extending to the base of the mound, were without result, save 
in one instance. Eighteen inches from the surface, below the central part of the 
summit-plateau, was an ornament of sheet-copper, 4.3 inches by 3.8 inches, having 
a central concavo-convex boss surrounded by a circle of depressions, which had 
been placed upon a human skull lying face upward, and had preserved parts of the 
upper and lower jaws with their teeth, which were stained bright green. No trace 
of the remainder of the skull was evident, and presumably all other parts of the 
burial, which probably had been that of a child, judging from the teeth, had disap- 
peared through decay. 
The trial-holes in this mound covered it fairly well, and presumably no other 
burials were in it, though it is impossible to say if originally there had been but a 
single central burial, or if a number of other burials had been in the mound, all of 
which had gone without leaving a trace of bone behind, though in this latter event 
one might have expected to find some artifact. 
In three places in the field in which the mound was, where the soil seemed 
dark and debris of aboriginal occupancy lay upon the surface to a limited extent, 
unsuccessful digging was done by us. 
MOUNDS on THE Upper Hovey PLACE, RANDOLPH COUNTY. 
In woods, on the banks of a “lake,” or former course of the river, about one- 
quarter mile northeasterly from the landing on the Upper Hovey Place, the property 
of Mr. G. H. Hovey, of Pocahontas, Ark., are two small mounds, the larger less 
than 4 feet in height and about 40 feet in diameter. In this mound, almost entirely 
dug out previous to our visit, were sunk by us a number of trial-holes in places left 
by former digging. No results were obtained except to find several small fragments 
of human bones in material thrown out from earlier holes. 
The smaller mound was investigated by us without success. 
CEMETERY NEAR MITCHELL'S LoG-cAMP LANDING, RANDOLPH COUNTY. 
About 1.5 mile in a northerly direetion through the woods from Mitchell’s 
Log-camp Landing, is the house of Mr. William Anderson. In an enclosure adjoin- 
ing his house, used for the cultivation of flowers and vegetables, bones had been 
brought to light in the course of cultivation. Some digging had been done by 
members of the family. 
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