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and still more closely figure 44, p, from Benque Viejo, both being 

 made of obsidian. 



Mound No. 13 



Close to Corozal, in the northern district of British Honduras, the 

 sea in its gradual encroachment along the coast had partially washed 

 away a small mound. On the beach, by the side of the jnomid, 

 were found a few fragments of human long bones, a small triangular 

 arrowhead or javelin head of black flint, a number of potsherds of 

 coarse, thick, reddisli pottery, and two small obsidian knives. These 

 had evidently been washed out of the mound b}^ the sea. The 

 remaining j^art of the mound was dug down. It was found to be 

 18 feet in diameter, loss than 4 foot high at its highest point, and 

 built throughout of water-worn stones, sand, and earth. Near the 

 center and on the ground level wt^e found human vertebrae and 

 parts of a skuU, probably belonging with the leg bonos found on the 



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Fig. 45.— Obsidian objects found in a mound near Benque Viejo. 



beach. Close to these were found a small three-legged earthenware 

 bead vase, containing two pottery and one small polished greenstone 

 bead, together with one eccentrically shaped flint object. This is 

 probably meant to represent a ''quash," or picote, with bushy tail 

 coiled over his back. It is rather neatly chipped from dark-yellow 

 flint. It measures nearly 3 inches from the curve of the tail to the 

 tip of the forepaw. 



Mound No. 14 • 



The next mound in wliich an eccentrically shaped flint was dis- 

 covered is a very large one situated far away from any settlement, 

 at the headwaters of the Rio Hondo, in northern British Honduras. 

 The stone implements found in it lay near the summit, about a 

 couple of feet beneath the surface. They were discovered accident- 

 ally by an Indian (from whom they were purchased) while digging 

 out a lialib, or gibnut, from its hole, and consisted of: (a) A spindle- 

 shaped stone brazo 12 inches long by 9f inches in circumference, 

 finely polisliod from grinding corn on a metate. (b) A chipped flint 

 brazo, 7^ inches long by 10^ inches in circumference, polished on one 



