526 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
The larger of these mounds, somewhat less than 9 feet in height, is oblong, 
with rounded corners. Its sides practically face the cardinal points; its diameter 
of base, N. and S., is 132 feet. The diameter of the summit-plateau in the same 
direction is 80 feet. The minor basal diameter is 98 feet, about 50 feet of which is 
covered by the summit-plateau, which is not flat but has an upward slope from 
south to north. 
Trial-holes put down from the plateau of this mound showed the northern 
part of it to be of clay superficially, which being dug through gave place to fine 
sand. Excavations in the southern part of the mound were in sand from the 
beginning. 
No bones, human or animal, were found, and no artifacts, fragmentary or 
entire, were met with in the digging. 
The smaller mound, of sand, 4 feet in height, had a circular outline of base 
with a diameter of about 75 feet. The summit-plateau was 35 feet in diameter. 
In this mound trial-holes were put down and in addition a central excavation 
18 feet square. A layer of dark material, about 6 inches thick, was encountered 
4 feet 10 inches from the surface. This layer evidently marked the original surface 
of the ground. It was without break of any kind, and it was evident that no pits 
extended below it. Nothing was found in the digging except one rude arrowhead 
of flint. 
We now come to sites along Red river in Arkansas. 
MOUND NEAR HIGETOWER LANDING, LAFAYETTE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. 
About one mile NNE. from Hightower Landing, in woods, is a mound about 
4.5 feet in height, oblong, with rounded corners. Its sides face the cardinal points; 
its diameter N. and 5. is 78 feet, and 57 feet E. and W. The summit-plateau, in 
the same directions, respectively, is 58 feet and 40 feet. 
No bone or artifact of any kind was found by us in this mound, which proved 
to be of sand with a slight admixture of clay. | 
MOUND NEAR Dices BLUFF LANDING, MILLER County, ARK. 
Diggs Bluff Landing is a short distance below Diggs Bluff, which is the end of 
low hills there approaching the river. 
About one-half mile ESE. from the landing, in a cultivated field forming part 
of a plantation belonging to Mr. C. L. Bailey, of Doddridge, Ark., is a mound which, 
in the past, has been under cultivation. Owing to this, probably, its present shape 
is decidedly irregular, though seemingly the mound has been quadrangular with a 
considerable plateau. The basal diameters are 196 feet and 106 feet, the plateau 
having diameters of 138 feet and 62 feet. The mound is 6.5 feet in height. 
Sixteen trial-holes put down from the summit-plateau showed the mound to 
be almost exclusively of sand. No bones, midden debris, or sign of grave were 
encountered. 
