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sheet-copper that had imparted a green color to some of the bones of the hand and 
to at least one of the cervical vertebrae. This ornament, 3 inches long by 1.5 inches 
wide, is corrugated on one side and belongs to a type common to the mound at 
Crystal river, northwest Florida; the larger mound at Murphy island, St. Johns 
river, Florida, and other localities. With the copper lay two mussel-shells. One 
(Lampsilis anodontoides) shows a perforation at one end; the other was broken to 
fragments in digging. Near the skull of the skeleton on which was the copper 
ornament lay an isolated calvarium. 
In another excavation wére a few scattered human bones. 
In a third hole, was а considerable deposit of fragments of calcined shell, with- 
out charcoal but containing also unburnt shells, similar to the deposit described 
before. Оп this material, 32 inches from the surface, lay a skeleton flexed to the 
left. Near this skeleton, but about 8 inches higher, lay another skeleton, flexed on 
the right side. Іп another part of the same hole were a few scattered bones. 
These were the only trial-holes that yielded human remains. 
Comparatively few sherds were met with during the digging. One fragment, 
the base of a pot, has three feet. 
It was determined by us to make additional excavations near that part of the 
shell deposit where the three trial-holes, which were all near to each other, had 
been productive. Seven additional holes, therefore, were sunk, five being 6 feet 
square each, one 5 feet square, and another 5 feet by 10 feet. Subsequently, these 
excavations were greatly enlarged until some of them joined. АП were carried to 
a depth of more than 4 feet, seemingly the height of the deposit at that place, 
where their abandonment was necessary as water-level had been reached. Shell, 
however, continued down an undetermined distance. 
Burials were found almost exclusively in two adjacent excavations which, sub- 
sequently, were merged. The bones, unusually soft for those that have been rein- 
forced with lime-salts coming from shell, were in no case, but one, more than 2 feet 
8 inches from the surface. Тһе exception, scattered bones, lay at a depth of 3 feet 
8 inches. 
Disconnected bones, and aboriginal disturbances where, apparently, burials had 
been eut through in making other graves, were met with in a number of instances. 
In addition, burials were encountered as follows: 
Skeletons closely flexed on the right side—2. 
Skeletons flexed on the right side—4. 
Skeletons closely flexed on the left side—2. 
Skeleton flexed on the left side (a child)—1. 
Skeletons at full length on the back, including two infants side by side—4. 
Skeleton at full length, face down—1. 
Skeleton at full length on back, to knees which were bent at right angles 
(child)—1. 
Skeleton closely flexed, the trunk chest downward, the legs to the left—1. 
Young infant, at full length, exact position not tebe: 
Certain skeletons given above deserve particular notice : 
