SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 591 
АП other ridges and rises at this interesting place were carefully dug into by 
us, but while it was evident they were of artificial origin, it was also apparent that 
the parts in which burials probably had been, had washed or worn away. 
SITE AT RICHLAND, DESHA COUNTY, ARK. 
Richland, a settlement belonging to the Price, Ledbetter Land Company, of 
Richland, includes the De Soto Plantation. About one mile north of Richland, in 
woods, on property belonging to the Company, is a large, flat-topped mound which 
has been extensively used for burials in recent times. 
One of the houses on the main road in Richland, on the De Soto Plantation, 
stands upon a low, much-spread mound. On one side of this house seven trial- 
holes were put down, all of which reached burials. In removing these burials 
others were found, making a total of eighteen, none at a depth greater than 3 feet. 
The bunched burial was not represented, all being individual burials, some extended 
on the back, some flexed. All were of adults except one of an adolescent and one 
of a child. Two of the burials, lying side by side, had lost heads and shoulders by 
the digging of a hole some time in the past. ' 
At the legs of one burial were a few small, shell beads, and some powdered 
hematite was near the skull of another. Near the feet of an extended burial was 
an undecorated vessel of moderate size, cylindrical, with slightly flaring rim and a 
base moderately convex. 
Although doubtless the mound contained a great number of interments, we 
felt disinclined to continue its exploration, especially as the position of the house 
and out-buildings upon it precluded all idea of its complete demolition. 
Within a short distance of the mound just described is an almost imperceptible 
rise in the ground, of limited éxtent, the soil rather dark in shade and having on 
the surface numerous fragments of pottery. Investigation of this site, however, 
indicated that it had not been used for burial purposes. 
MOUND NEAR NEBLETT LANDING, BOLIVAR County, Miss. 
Back of Neblett Landing is the old Neblett Place, now known as Virginia 
Plantation, the property of Mr. Charles Scott of Rosedale, Miss. | 
About two miles in a NE. by E. direction from the landing there is on this 
plantation a mound about 7 feet in height. It is nearly square and has a summit- 
plateau. The entire mound has been under cultivation that has rounded its cor- 
ners and extended its diameter, which, at the time of our visit, was about 125 feet. 
Trees on the side of this mound show it to have suffered extensive wash of rain, 
the roots of one tree being exposed for 2.5 feet above the present surface. The 
mound, however, presumably, has suffered more extensively from wash of water on 
the sides than on the level top. Nevertheless, it was evident that the plateau also 
had suffered to a considerable extent, as fragments of pottery and of human bones 
lay on it in numbers at the time when our work was undertaken. Moreover, some 
burials were found partly uncovered by the plow, and presumably many more had 
been totally destroyed. 
