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muck and sand-tempered black ware with buff surface. Shapes 

 varied from shallow circular bowls to deep jars. Stamped decora- 

 tions included a small quantity of check stamped patterns and one 

 coarse complicated stamp representing concentric circles, on a 

 large cooking jar. One bowl was decorated with a deeply in- 

 cised interlocking scroll design composed of negative bands set off 

 with coarse punctate areas. A characteristic feature is a notched 

 lip, the notching being carried out sometimes directly on the 

 top of the lip, sometimes on the outer edge of the rim and sometimes 

 at the base of the neck band. One vessel with flat, vertical loop han- 

 dles was recovered. No painted ware was found. 



Six conch-shell bowls were found and two disk-shaped shell rings, 

 each about % inch in diameter. There were also two tortoise shell 

 combs in a fair state of preservation and a circular object of copper 2 

 inches in diameter, probably an ear ornament, with a raised hemi- 

 spherical boss in the center. Ten projectile points of white chert and 

 brown flint were found. These were of 2 types, 5 with round bases 

 and 5 with flat bases. 



Objects of European manufacture were numerous. Three sherds 

 of pottery retained portions of an olive-green glaze. Many thou- 

 sands of small European glass beads of many different colors were 

 recovered. In some instances they were found sufficiently undis- 

 turbed to indicate that they had been used as neck ornaments, brace- 

 lets, and bags. Unique types were one emerald green pentagonal 

 drilled glass bead and a home-made bottle-green glass pendant, 

 formed by melting a lump of glass and looping the tapered end so as 

 to form a hole for suspension. This may have been the work of the 

 Indians themselves. Two large drilled beads of quartz crystal were 

 found, one about one-half inch in diameter with plane-cut facets 

 and the other in the shape of an oblate spheroid with long spiral 

 facets running from the two openings of the drilled hole. In addi- 

 tion to the copper ear ornament, which may have been of trade 

 copper, metal objects included a conical bangle of sheet gold about 

 ll^ inches in length and 3 tubular silver beads % to I14 inches in 

 length. The absence of any indication of iron is worthy of comment 



Because of the abundance of glass beads the impression is created 

 that this mound is rather late historic in period. The presence of a 

 relatively abundant quantity of native pottery, shell bowls, and 

 stone arrowheads together with the absence of iron would seem 

 to offer evidence in the other direction. Tentative estimates place 

 the building of the mound about the middle of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. 



Mound no. 2. — This mound is located one-half mile south of the 

 south fork of the Little Manatee River, on the property of T. W. 



