Other artifacts recovered from excavations in Mound Q include sharpened, tabular sandstone saws, sandstone paint palettes, sheet copper artifacts, polished greenstone celts and chisels. Drills, microdrills and perforators and pigments and toolkits associated with making pigments, in colors of red and yellow (ochre), white (galena), green (glauconite), black and grey (graphite and coal). Terrace-rimmed (or crenelated) pottery vessels, figurines, marine shell beads, bone hairpins, and several pieces of stone that were imported from the Illinois river basin all represent exotic items from Mound Q.
Mound G is one of the larger mounds at Moundville, rising at least 6.5 m (21 ft) above the plaza. Mound G, which did not include burials, also had residential structures with conjoined rooms at the summit, and it was used from about the same time as Mound Q. The differences between the artifact assemblage at Mounds G and Q are a relative paucity of craft-related items and exotic materials. Everything else is present: including similar faunal remains and pottery and lithic types. Knight (2004) suggests that the differences represent a significant level of craft production by the elites.
