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Fig. 63.— Pottery vase 

 Mound No. 18. 



painted light yellow and polished throughout. On the outer surface 

 of the rim, outhned in thin black lines, is the glyph represented 

 in figure 64, which is repeated all the way round the circum- 

 ference. No additional objects were found 

 in this cyst, nor were there any traces of 

 bones in it, or in the rest of the mound, 

 which was afterward examined. 



Mound No. 19 



Mound No. 19, situated close to the preced- 

 ing, was 6 feet in height, with flattened top, 

 built solidly throughout of hmestone blocks 

 and a friable mortarlike substance. At the 

 found in ground level, near the center of the mound, 

 were discovered two cists, placed side by 

 side, separated by a partition wall built of blocks of cut stone. 

 Each cist was .6 feet long, 3 feet broad, nearly 4 feet deep, solidly 

 constructed of stones mortared together. Neither the cists nor the 

 body of the mound contained anything of interest except a few 

 fragments of bone in the last stages of disintegration. 



Mound No. 20 



Mound No. 20 was situated at Pueblo Nuevo, about 6 miles from 

 the mouth of the Rio Nuevo, in the northern district of British 

 Honduras. The mound was about 100 feet in length and varied 

 from 8 to 12 feet in height and from 15 to 25 feet in breadth. It 

 was built tliroughout of earth, limestone dust, and blocks of lime- 

 stone, a great many of wliich had been squared. Immediately 

 beneath the surface, running east and west along the long chameter 

 of the mound and nearly centrally placed in it, was the upper sur- 

 face of a waU, wliich had evidently at one time formed part of a building 

 of considerable size. This wall was built of finely squared blocks of 

 limestone mortared to- 

 gether, and was some- 

 what more than 18 

 inches thick. It ex- 

 tended for 40 feet, 

 turning at right angles 

 at both the eastern and 

 western extremities 

 and was broken by a 

 single opening, 3 J feet broad at the center. The part of the wall left 

 standing varied from 2 to 3^ feet in height and was covered on its 

 inner surface by a layer of smooth, yeUow, very hard cement; the 

 outer surface, which still retained traces of painted stucco moldings, 



Fig. 6-1.— Gljph outlined on outer surface of rim of vase shown in 

 fig. 63. 



