394 INDIAN MOUNDS IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA. 



with a projecting branch or horn near the smaller end. The structure 

 is 175 feet long. The larger or wider end is 50 feet wide and the smaller 

 15 feet across. The horn or branch leaves the main structure at an 

 angle of about 45 degrees, 58 feet from the smaller end, and extends due 

 north 20 feet, having an average width of 10 feet. Figs. 1 and 2, Plate 

 I, represent this mound in ground plan and section. The whole struc- 

 ture slopes gently from the wide end, attaining its greatest height op- 

 posite the projecting horn ; from this point it slopes rapidly away to the 

 narrow end of both the horn and main mound. 



Excavations systematically conducted revealed human remains in vast 

 quantities in every part of the mound, but, owing to their great age, 

 they crumbled at a touch, and it was with great difficulty that I obtained 

 one perfect cranium. This skull was that of an adult. One side of the 

 head had been broken in, and imbedded in the sand. Inside the head 

 I found a rusty iron spike about 3 inches in length, and a broken arrow 

 head. Excepting some highly ornamented fragments of pottery these 

 were all the relics I obtained. These fragments were scattered through- 

 out the mound. 



The mode of burial was interment at full length, with the heads di- 

 rected toward a common center, the body reclining on its right side ; I 

 discovered three of these circles of bodies, each containing from seven 

 to fourteen adult skeletons. 



These mounds are situated convenient to good water, and in a vicinity 

 that afforded their builders easy access to oyster bars and shell-fish of 

 every variety. No large trees grow on or near them, and the growth 

 upon them consists of scrubby bushes and saw-palmetto. 



2. ANCIENT ARROW-HEAD FACTORY. 



About five miles south of the Kootie Eiver, and some two miles north 

 of the mouth of Anclote River, is a small stream called Trouble Creek. 

 A considerable body of blue flint-rock occurs here, cropping out along 

 the shores of the creek, with scattering nodules lying in all directions. 

 This point was evidently used for a long time by the aborigines as a 

 factory for arrow and spear heads. Bushels of chips and fragments 

 strew the ground, and large quantities have. been washed from the banks 

 of the creek and cover its bottom. A long search revealed nothing ex- 

 cept a few arrow points and spear heads spoiled in making, and a lot of 

 broken pottery. 



No doubt excavations along the banks would bring other relics to 

 light, as the Indians must have resorted to this place in large numbers, 

 and have worked here for a long series of years, judging from the depth 

 of soil over the chips. 



3. MOUNDS ON ANCLOTE RIVER. 



In ascending Anclote River one of the most prominent objects that 

 attract the eye is a large oblong mound on the northern shore, which, 



