SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 629 
Considerable digging in this mound came upon three burials, the depths of 
which were not taken as the interments lay below that part of the mound where 
the previous digging had been. These burials were all deposits of cremated human 
remains, respectively: 4 feet by 6 feet, by 3 inches in thickness;! 2 feet 3 inches 
by 3 feet 9 inches, and 4 inches thick; 1 foot 2 inches by 1 foot 10 inches, and 3 
inches thick. These burials, seemingly, had been cremated in place, as charcoal 
and much clay hardened and discolored by fire lay with them. Whole bones lay 
in the deposit in places. The bones evidently had been exposed to great heat and 
fell into fragments on removal. In one instance (the bones of a right arm extended) 
the same degree of heat had not been applied throughout. The upper part of the 
humerus was calcined, and the soil above and below it showed the effect of intense 
heat. Toward the lower part of the arm, however, the heat had been less, as 
shown by the condition of the bone and of the surrounding soil, and also by the 
presence of charcoal. The bones of the hand were but slightly burnt; the soil was 
dark rather than red and the material which had served as fuel was only charred. 
With one deposit were a calcined bit of deer antler and calcined bones not 
human. With another deposit was a cooking-pot in fragments. The deposits of 
calcined bones lay on the same level in the mound. Twenty-eight inches below 
their level, apart, were two rude vessels intended for culinary purposes. 
MOUNDS NEAR THE JONES PLACE, HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, ARK. 
About one-half mile N. by E. from the mounds on the Jones Place, on property 
belonging to Mr. J. В. Shults, of Fulton, Ark., in woods, near a “lake”, a former 
course of Red river, are three mounds in sight of one another and in full view from 
the road. One of these mounds had been badly dug into in two places, but the 
remaining two seemingly were intact. 
% MOUND А. 
This mound, the westernmost of the group, previously untouched, was 42 feet 
across its circular base and had a height of 3 feet 3 inches. This measurement, 
however, presumably was made from where there had been some filling in by wash 
of water, as a measurement taken in the course of digging, from the summit of the 
mound to an unmistakable base-line, showed the original height to have been 
feet. 
The mound was made of a mixture of sand and clay. Eight trial-holes, most 
of which were greatly enlarged later in the digging, all came upon the dark basal 
layer to which reference has been made. The holes in the central part of the 
mound showed on this layer the presence of charcoal and burnt clay. One hole 
near the center, in addition to the burnt material, came upon an earthenware 
bottle lying on its side upon the layer. 
! A part of this deposit had been removed by the previous digging. 
