504 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 



Mounds Near Blubber Creek, Pickens County, Ala. 

 About 130 feet from the river's bank and 300 yards south of Blubber creek, 

 approximately, were five mounds on property of Lee Stone, Esq., Birmingham, Ala., 

 nearly in a straight line N. W. and S. E., and two in a more southerly direction, as 



shown in the plan (Fig. 1). 



Mound A, the most northwesterly, like 

 all the others, consisted of sand, with perhaps 

 a slight admixture of clay. A great tree 

 grew upon it, filling it almost solidly with 

 roots. Slight investigation yielded nothing. 

 Mound B was practically dug away. At 

 the center of the base were a few fragments 

 of bones, badly decayed, and teeth of an in- 

 fant. With these were a few small shells, 



MOUNDS AT BUI8BCR CREEK „ , , „ , , , ,, 



.jo.. .-.)•",„ perforated for use as beads, and a small num- 



(DVlllr h er f s } ie n beads. With these bones was a 



©tftjT* water-worn boulder, 11 inches in diameter 



fig. l.-Mounds at Blubber Creek. and three inches thick, considerably pitted 



on either side — doubtless used for pounding 



maize. Beneath this stone was a great number of pebbles, some broken. 



Mound C was entirely dug away. At two points were a few fragments of 

 human bone and, 30 inches down at the center of the base, were some bones of a 

 child with milk teeth, having shell beads at the neck. 



Mound D was dug out as to its central parts. One human tooth alone was 

 met with. 



The central parts of Mound E were dug through. The bones, or part of the 

 bones, of an adult were met with 20 inches down ; also fragments of bones near 

 the margin. 



Mound F seemed to have been a dwelling site and to have grown by slow 

 dejjosit. The sand was dark with organic matter, and fire-places were here and 

 there. There were much broken pottery and two discs cut from fragments of pots. 

 Discs of this kind, of which we have frequently written before, were doubtless used 

 in a game. They are found in various parts of the United States and Canada, and 

 have been met with by us in numbers along the Alabama river, in South Carolina 

 and in Georgia, but not in peninsular Florida. 



Mound G was centrally dug out. A few decayed bones of an adult were met 

 with and a rude arrowhead of chert loose in the sand. 



Mound at Summerville, Pickens County, Ala. 

 In a great cultivated field, about one-half mile in an easterly direction from 

 the landing, on property of James B. Summerville, Esq., of Stone, Ala., is a mound 

 roughly circular in outline, rising about 11 feet above the general level, though, 



