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a check and complicated stamp. Incised designs were usually com- 

 bined with tatooing, and interlocking scrolls were the most typical 

 pattern. Notched lips were common on the deep vessels as were 

 flat lips on the shallow bowls. One large sherd of typical Weedon 

 Island ware was discovered. One pear-shaped vessel was decorated 

 with an incised eagle feather design. All the ware is untempered 

 and is of two types, muck ware and clay ware. The first is made 

 of black muck which ranges from buff to brick red in color when 

 fired. Upon being broken the inner part of the ware can be seen 

 to retain its black color. This ware has a hardness of 2.5 and is 

 smooth and velvety in texture, being free from grit, and is very 

 light in weight. Microscopic examination discloses the substance 

 of the ware to be a mass of carbonized organic material. 



The clay pottery is made of a white clay which contains naturally 

 a certain amount of grit. Two large lumps of this clay were found 

 in the mound, still retaining the finger marks of the hands that had 

 moulded them. This ware also has a hardness of 2.5 but is consider- 

 ably heavier than the muck ware. 



Fourteen conch shell bowls were recovered in the mound. Most 

 of these had a hole in the bottom as did the pottery. 



Six stemmed knives and arrowheads were recovered, and two with 

 concave bases. One large triangular chipped blade may have been 

 either an axe or a knife. There were about a dozen turtle-back 

 scrapers and one small triangular arrowhead. Throughout the 

 mound were scattered many flint spalls. With one burial were 

 three chipped spherical flint cores, each about the size of a baseball. 

 Four sandstone abrading stones complete the list of stone material. 



Three lumps of red ochre mixed with sand were found with burials, 

 while frequently the sand around the slaills of the bundle burials 

 would be reddened with ochre. 



European material consisted of a few small glass beads, mostly 

 blue or white in color, and a short blunt iron chisel. 



With the cremated burial previously mentioned, were found five 

 small glass beads, one of which was melted, two calcined stemmed 

 flint arrowheads and several unidentified pieces of iron which are 

 probably parts of a gun. These iron pieces were clustered around a 

 sandstone abrading stone, to which they adhered. 



This mound appears to be older than mounds nos. 1 and 2. 

 European material was scarce, and that which occurred was super- 

 ficial, except for the articles accompanying the cremated burial. 

 The sherd of Weedon Island pottery is of a type heretofore found 

 only in pre-Columbian mounds. The rest of the pottery, although 

 related to this ware, is not typical Weedon Island. My impression 

 is that this mound is very early post-Spanish. 



