In September, 1958, under terms of a co-operative agreement between The
University of Texas and the National Park Service, a crew of the Texas
Archeological Salvage Project returned to Harroun to complete the
investigation of the site. Because of time limitations it was apparent
that all three of the remaining mounds (B, C, and D) could not be
entirely excavated. Therefore, it was decided to concentrate on Mound C
since it appeared superficially to be the least disturbed of the three.
After excavation of Mound C was well under way, a portion of the crew
was moved to Mound B and it was also opened. Both mounds were found to
contain burned remains of house structures.
[Illustration: Fig. 1
HARROUN SITE
41 UR 10
PLAN OF SITE
solid lines mark measured locations
dashed lines mark approximate locations]
LOW MARSHY AREA
FENCE
MOUND C
BORROW PIT
LAKE
high water drainage channel
MOUND B
CYPRESS CREEK
MOUND A
MOUND D
Investigation of Mound D was begun late in September a few days before
the termination of the dig. Time did not permit complete excavation of
Mound D that season, but it was tested sufficiently to reveal that
it—like Mounds B and C—contained the burned remains of at least one
house.
During the 1958 season, in addition to the work at Mounds B, C, and D,
several trenches and test pits were dug in the floodplain near the
mounds in a fruitless search for additional occupational features.
A final trip was made to the site in February, 1959, by L. F. Duffield,
W. A. Davis, and E. Mott Davis of the Texas Archeological Salvage
Project. They spent three days exposing and recording the portion of the
house at Mound D which had been left unexcavated the previous fall.
As a result of the investigations at the Harroun Site in 1957, 1958, and
1959, all four of the mounds were completely excavated except for
certain marginal portions and several check blocks. In addition, the
area surrounding the mounds was tested sufficiently to show that there
was no general area of occupation near the mounds. The excavation of the
Harroun Site was supervised by the senior author. The junior author
served as an assistant archeologist during both the 1957 and 1958
seasons.
The artifacts recovered indicate affiliation with the Fulton Aspect of
the Caddoan Area (Suhm _et al._, 1954: 151-161). The Fulton Aspect is
the later of two aspects that have been recognized in the Caddoan Area
as belonging to the agricultural, ceramic Mississippi culture pattern of
the Southeastern United States.
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