In view of the foregoing factors, it is concluded that Mounds B, C, and
D at the Harroun Site were purposely erected over the ruins of the
burned houses.
It appears certain that the four houses at the Harroun Site were typical
Caddoan houses. Perhaps they were of the traditional “beehive” shape, or
possibly they had wattle-and-daub walls and thatched roofs like those
photographed by Soule about 1870 and pictured in Webb (1940: Pl. 8, 1).
Historical descriptions and sketches of Caddoan houses indicate that
they did not usually have extended, covered entranceways as do a
majority of the prehistoric houses that have been excavated in the
Caddoan Area. This suggests that the extended entranceway was used at a
relatively early period but was abandoned prior to the 17th century.
However, Caddoan houses of the early historic period will have to be
excavated before a definite statement can be made in this regard.
Ceramics at the Harroun Site consisted mainly of brushed, incised,
engraved, and appliquéd styles, including types Ripley Engraved, Taylor
Engraved, Bullard Brushed, Pease Brushed-Incised, and Maydelle Incised.
One sherd of Crockett Curvilinear Incised was also found, and two other
sherds are similar to the types Coles Creek Incised (or Chase Incised)
and Beldeau Incised. Ripley, Taylor, Bullard, and Maydelle are all
indigenous types of the Titus Focus (Suhm _et al._, 1954: 192), Ripley
in particular being considered diagnostic of the focus. Beldeau Incised
and Coles Creek Incised are Lower Mississippi types and they are surely
intrusive in the site. Both were buried between 2.5 and 4.0 feet deep in
the floodplain (but at different locations) and they may pre-date the
mounds. The sherd of Crockett Curvilinear Incised came from a disturbed
area at Mound B, but four sherds from a Gibson Aspect engraved bottle
are anomalies that are apparently associated with the mound period at
Harroun.
The most common type in the small sample of arrow points is Perdiz,
generally considered to equate in time (in East Texas) with the Fulton
Aspect, but usually thought of as a trait of the Frankston Focus—not the
Titus Focus. Dart point types Cary, Ellis, and Wells—all found at the
Harroun Site—are widely distributed in East Texas, and any or all of
these types could be affiliates of the Titus Focus or related complexes,
although such associations have not been previously demonstrated. The
few miscellaneous stone artifacts are relatively non-distinctive in
form.
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