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mounds stood up rather prominently, about
5 feet high (a few of them higher) in a pasture
that had been used for corn last year. Pieces of
tallk and a few little ears lying around, plus grazed
green grass, weeds, thistles, etc., plus 50 thick steers.
The hills were about 20 ft across, not very evenly
spaced. The soil was very light, no evidence
of a stoney foundation (we haven't seen a stone
for 200 miles), and no rocks in the few low
road cuts. Each mound had one or more burrows
on it, not necessarily on top. The burrows were
big enough to put your hand or even arm in.
Some had been dug from the outside and were flat.
Others were arm deep or more. They looked mostly
like armwells dragings, I could find no solid
evidence of true - teras. They covered an area
maybe 10 acres.
just on the north side of the Rio Grande,
on the west side of the road, was another set of
green-covered mounds, at least 5 ft tall,
among scattered thin trees. Didn't stop to examine
these.