Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Anthropology/New River Mounds, Berrien County, Georgia
NEW RIVER MOUNDS, BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA.
By William J. Taylor, of Nashville, Ga.
The mounds described in this paper, two in number, are situated on a dry sandy level of pine and oak land near the edge of a hummock which skirts the creek in the ninth district of Berrien County, Georgia. They are about 300 yards from the creek and 100 yards from a branch emptying into the creek. This site is on lot numbered 275, and 6 miles southwest from the town of Nashville.
The mounds had been partially explored previously to our examination, but the following is an account of our results:
Mound No. 1 was 30 feet wide and 4 feet high, and perfectly circular at the base. The earth composing it was obtained from a saucer-shaped excavation, now 8 feet across and 1 foot deep. At the bottom of this depression were found charred wood, ashes, and pieces of burnt pine wood, which appeared to have been placed there when the interment was made.
Mound No. 2 resembled No. 1 in every respect. The growth on both mounds were wire-grass, sedge, bushes of the red oak and post oak. The early settlers and the Indians whom they encountered were alike ignorant of the origin of these relics of the past.