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Burial No. 3. — Centrally, a single skull in fragments. With it was part of 

 what must have been a fine weapon of quartzite, a spearhead or a dagger. The 

 fragment, from which a part is missing at either end, is 7 inches in length. 



Burial No. 4. — Two femurs. 



Mound at Bryan's Burn. Sumter County, Ala. 



In a great cultivated field, about one-half mile W. N. W. from the landing, on 

 property of John Erwin, Esq., Greensboro, Ala, is a mound which has been badly 

 washed, 150 feet long by 106 feet across. Its height is 5.5 feet. It is known far 

 and wide as " The Indian Mound.'' A number of excavations indicated the mound 

 to belong to the domiciliary class. 



Mounds near Bickley's Landing, Marengo County, Ala. 

 About one-half mile in a southerly direction from the landing, on property of 

 Mrs. M. E. Crane, of Myrtlevvood, Ala., forty mounds, in sight one of another, many 

 marginally in contact, were located by us, and possibly some escaped our notice. 

 These mounds were nearly all of circular outline and none exceeded 5 feet in 

 height. All were seemingly intact. All were above high-water mark and most 

 were symmetrical, though a few had been a little spread by cultivation. 



Ten of these mounds were entirely dug through by us, except marginal parts 

 surrounding large trees. All were composed of a mixture of sand and clay and 

 unstratified. 



Mound I. — 4 feet high, 26 feet basal diameter. 



Burial No. 1. — 2 feet 7 inches down, a crushed skull with some teeth and 1 

 foot away, three cervical vertebra? and more teeth. With the 

 skull were a drill and a knife (Fig. 4), chipped from jasper peb- 

 bles, and a lot of pebbles and chippings. 



Burial No. 2. — 4 feet from ♦center, 3 feet 4 inches down, 

 were fragments of femurs ; two tibia?, one with foot bones and 

 an extra os calcis, the other with os calcis and astragalus 

 only. Nearby was a large layer of charcoal. 



Burial No. 3. — 3 feet down and 4 feet from center lay a 

 lone skull and several cervical vertebra?. With these were : 

 one knife chipped from a pebble ; a hammer-stone the size of a 

 clenched hand ; sixty-one pebbles, doubtless material for drills, 

 etc. ; eight pebbles partly chipped. 

 Burial No. 4. — 5.5 feet from center, 3 feet down, was a skeleton at full length, 

 with the exception of one thigh, which lay at an. angle. With the bones were: 

 decayed shells ; pebbles ; small arrow-points ; a hammer-stone ; decaying animal 

 bones, possibly implements ; and a drill beautifully chipped from a jasper pebble, 

 the surface of which showed on the base of the drill (See Fig. 5). 

 Mound II.— Diameter, 18 feet; height, 3 feet. 



