342 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE ALABAMA RIVER. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A rattle consisting of a tortoise shell, much decayed, containing many small 

 pebbles, lay near a skeleton, and near another was a piercing implement of bone 

 pointed at either end. 



EEMARKS. 



Nothing indicating a knowledge of the whites was met with in this interesting 

 mound with a single exception. A colored man at work at a place across which 

 much superficial material had been thrown, found a leaden bullet. We do not con- 

 sider this discovery as of necessity indicating a post-Columbian origin for the 

 mound, and are inclined to believe that aborigines having a leaden bullet would 

 have had many other articles of European make which would have found their 

 way into the body of the mound. 



Smaller Mound in the Thirty-Acre Field, Montgomery County. 



About twenty-five yards in a westerly direction from the mound in the Thirty- 

 Acre Field, was a much smaller one almost ploughed away. In fact, had it not 

 been of a lighter color than the surrounding soil, it might have escaped our notice. 

 Its height was about 1 foot ; its diameter, about 50 feet. 



It was completely dug through at a depth of about 1 to 1.5 feet from the 

 surface where undisturbed clay was met with. The upper 

 part of the mound was of yellowish clay ; the lower, of dark 

 material consisting of clay and of midden refuse. 



Thirty-one interments, similar to those found in the 

 other mound, were uncovered. 



In the debris were the usual pebbles, chipped into dis- 

 coidal form, polished chisels, broken " celts," hammer-stones, 

 fig. 63.-Disc of earthen- etc. Also a perforated disc of earthenware and another with 

 Thirty- SreFieUM Full the perforation surrounded by lines, as shown in Fig. 63. 



With the burials were many shell pins and beads includ- 

 ing a considerable number of flat beads larger than those found before. We give 

 a selection in Fig. 64. 



In addition, were a handsome discoidal stone ; a stopper-shaped object of 

 earthenware, somewhat broken ; four cubes of galena ; a sheet copper pendant, 

 badly broken, similar in style to the one from the other mound and to those from 

 the Charlotte Thompson Place. 



With burials were two lots of sheet copper pendants of the prevalent blunt- 

 pointed arrowhead type. The first lot of seven varied in length from 2.8 inches to 

 3.9 inches and in maximum breadth from 1 inch to 1.8 inches. Two lay separately 

 near the head, while five, near by, piled one upon the other, were apparently upon 

 decayed bark enclosed in matting which the copper salt had preserved. This 

 matting was made of split cane which, in one direction, goes once under and four 



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