242 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
was found on the base of the mound. Evidently this mound was not built for 
burial purposes. 
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, is a mound, about 13 feet in height, 
known as Indian Hill. In shape it is approximately a truncated cone with basal 
diameters of 138 and 129 feet. Тһе summit plateau, about circular, is 62 feet 
across. А trench 18 feet wide at first, later contracted to 15 feet, was dug along the 
base to its central part. Four distinct stages of occupancy were met with, but no 
burials. 
The Shields mound, near the mouth of St. Johns river, Florida, has a height 
of 18 feet. Its base, excluding a graded way, is about 214 feet square. Its summit 
plateau is 115 feet by 135 feet. 
Excavations around the base of this mound yielded burials that appeared to 
have been rather recent, and having no artifacts with them. 
Next the entire eastern slope of the mound was dug away, and, in addition, 10 
feet of the eastern end of the body of the mound, under the summit plateau. This 
digging, which was done along the base of the mound, was extended inward 27 feet 
in a trench 175 feet broad. Then the trench, reduced to a breadth of 115 feet, was 
carried іп 21 feet farther. Тһе mound showed various periods of occupancy but 
no burials were found at a depth of more than 3 feet from the surface. 
Next, all that remained of the summit plateau was dug through at a depth of 
from 6 to 8 feet. Human remains, reduced almost to dust in many cases, were 
found in abundance, all within 4 feet of the surface, with four exceptions, which 
were 6 feet down. Неге we have a domiciliary mound with superficial burials. 
Near St. Johns Landing,’ on St. Johns river, was a mound, circular in outline, 
7.5 feet in height. Its basal diameter was 95 feet; its summit plateau was 60 feet 
across. Twenty-one men, working five days, levelled it to the base. With the ex- 
ception of two burials near the surface, no human remains were met with. Assuredly, 
this mound was not intended for burial purposes. 
Near Walton's Camp, Santa Rosa county, Florida, is a mound about 12 feet in 
height. Тһе basal diameters are 178 feet by 223 feet; those of the summit plateau, 
135 feet by 179 feet. А great amount of digging in this mound showed it to have 
been used as a place of domicile and to have been heightened and increased in 
extent at different periods. Only superficial burials were found in it. 
It was on account of the results obtained in the foregoing mounds, and in a 
number of others not particularly noted here, that we assumed the mounds of Mound- 
ville, on account of their size and shape, to have been built for a purpose, or for 
purposes, other than those of burial, a conclusion, we think, borne out by the result 
of our work in Mound С and in Mound L. Of course, it is possible that certain of 
the mounds there were built by stages, and that burials were made from the 
* Certain River Mounds of Duval County, Florida," Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., Vol. X. 
XE 2 M Sand Mounds of the St. Johns River, Florida," Part II, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 
з “Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Northwest Florida Coast," Part I, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
of Phila., Vol. XI. 
