We found this place to be the farthest north on Bayou Magon (so far as
our search extended) where arrowheads, as a rule, are small and barbed. Farther
up the bayou i")rojectile points are much larger, many having shoulders rather
than barbs.
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58 ABORIGINAL SITES IN LOUISIANA AND IN ARKANSAS.
Mounds near Hope Landing, Madison Parish.
About one-quarter mile in woods, in a westerly direction from Hope Landing,
on property whose owner's name we were unable to learn, is a mound with
rounded corners which are directed toward the cardinal points, somewhat of an
exception, since, as we know, it is the sides of such mounds that usually are so
oriented. This mound, which is square and near which is the usual depression
filled with water, is 5.5 feet in height. Its diameter of base is 110 feet, the
plateau varying between 60 and 70 feet. From the southeastern side a shoul-
der, nearly square, projects 70 feet, measured from the summit-plateau of the
mound.
This mound, which was almost entirely of clay, yielded no sign of interment.
Between the mound just described and the bayou is a circular rise, about
75 feet in diameter and 18 inches in height. No evidence of the presence of
artifacts or of bones was found in it.
Mounds on the Montgomery Place, Madison Parish.
