CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



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Inverted over the mouth of Vessel MM was a bowl (LL) in fragments, with 

 flaring rim decorated on the inner surface with rudely incised lines. Parts of 

 Vessel LL, recovered and glued together, showed the bowl to have had a maximum 

 diameter of 10 inches ; a height of 

 3.7 inches. 



Several additional vessels, 

 found in small fragments, will not 

 be particularly described. 



Just beneath the surface, with 

 no human remains in association, 

 was a vessel, heart shaped in section 

 and decorated as shown in Fig. 33. 



Its maximum diameter is 3.5 

 inches; its height, 1.8 inches. It 

 unfortunately received a blow from 

 a spade. 



Two small un decorated pots 

 lay near the surface apart from 

 human remains, while another, with 

 rude incised decoration, came from 

 the vicinity of a broken urn. This 

 vessel is of the coil method of manu- 

 facture where coils of clay are su- 

 perimposed in manner much as we 

 make a straw hat, and of all the ves- 

 sels found, so far as noted, contained no admixture of pounded shell. 



Mounds on the Charlotte Thompson Place, Montgomery County (4). 



About six miles below Montgomery, on the left side of the river, going down, 

 in a cultivated field, about one-quarter mile from the water, was a mound 67 feet 

 through the base, approximately, with a summit plateau having a diameter of about 

 32 feet. The height of the mound was about 9 feet though its position across a 

 natural ridge made its altitude appear somewhat greater on two sides. 



Though the mound was uninjured by cultivation, unfortunately a trench 10 

 feet to 12 feet broad had been dug from the margin into the summit plateau some 

 distance though stopping short of the center of the mound. 



The mound was investigated by us, with the kind permission of Mr. W. G. 

 Henderson, of Montgomery, the owner. 



Beginning at the margin, a trench 20 feet across was run below the base of the 

 mound to the margin of the summit plateau. No burials were met with outside of 

 4.5 feet of the margin of the plateau. On the discovery of human remains at that 

 point the trench was widened to include the entire plateau and 4.5 feet beyond on 



( 'eiiK'teiy. Durand's Bend. 



