286 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, MOBILE BAY. 
The skeleton of an adult, at full length on the back, had three slabs of ferru- 
ginous sandstone around the skull. Back of the head, on edge, was а slab 7 inches 
by 4 inches, approximately, and 1 inch thick. Іп front of the face and a little 
under it was a slab about 6 inches square. Another, about half the size of the 
foregoing, lay on its side in front of the mouth. Two additional slabs lay on the 
thorax, one below the other, and another lay at the left side of the skeleton. 
A skeleton at full length, face down, had below the skull a small, undecorated 
pot of inferior ware, with a basal perforation, and around the cranium three slabs 
of ferruginous sandstone. On the thorax lay an additional slab, and another lay 
on the pelvis. On the thighs were two fragments of a decorated vessel of earthen- 
ware, shown in Fig. 3. 
Fic. 3.— Fragments of earthenware. Shell deposit at Blakeley. (About full size.) 
In two or three other instances, burials with slabs, similar to those we have 
described, were met with. In one case a stone lay over a skull; in another burial 
single slabs lay under the skull, on the thorax, and somewhat under the left side of 
the pelvis. 
An arrowhead or knife, of chert lay on the chest of the skeleton of an infant. 
Apart from human remains were a rough cutting implement of quartzite; an 
arrowhead or knife and a fragment of an arrowhead, of the same material. 
But few bits of earthenware were encountered during these excavations. One, 
of excellent ware, shows ornamentation with red paint. One base of a vessel has 
three feet; two have four feet each. бо far as noted by us, no ware in this deposit 
was shell-tempered. 
Though care was taken to observe, it was impossible, so far as our experience 
went, to say whether the burials in this shell deposit were made from the present 
surface or during the growth of the deposit. Тһе uniformity in color of the entire 
deposit made the detection of intrusive burials impossible. 
