408 CRYSTAL RIVER REVISITED. 
struction differed from the sloping ground around it in that deposits of shell were 
much less numerous in the mound, and consequently many burials were in clear 
sand apart from shell. 
Bunched burials, only a few of which were found at our second visit, invaria- 
bly lay in sand, and were always at a less depth than the shell deposits beneath 
which other forms of burial lay. However, these bunched burials were found 
where the mound joined the sloping ground and probably were left over from the 
great number of bunched burials which we found in the mound proper at the time 
of our first visit. 
There were also in the sand and in the shell layers numbers of scattered and 
broken human bones. It was impossible for us to classify these as to form of burial 
and no account of them is taken in our enumeration. 
During the second visit 186 burials were met with, as follows : 
Full length on back, of which 27 were children, REN | 
Full length, face down, 
Closely flexed on the right dde ; 
Closely flexed on the left side, 
Partly flexed on the right side, е кы 4 шй, 
Partly flexed оп the left side, 2 being children, 
Partly flexed on the back, knees up, 
In caved sand, 
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Infant skeleton badly decayed, 
Bunched burial with one skull, 
Bunched burials with two skulls, 
Bunched burials with three skulls, 
Bunched burial with seven skulls, / 3 
The three remaining burials, somewhat dicun быш Ше general d will 
be particularly described : 
(1) Adult, trunk on back, thighs turned upward and outward at an obtuse 
angle, legs flexed back at an acute angle, feet crossed. 
(2) Adult, full length on back, legs crossed at knees. 
(3) Ina pit below the base, badly decayed skeletons of two infants, together. 
Throughout the second investigation but two skulls! in a preservable condition 
were found. No skulls or parts of skulls showed evidence of cranial compression. 
With a number of burials was sand tinted by admixture of red hematite, and 
a few burials lay with sand made yellow by the addition of powdered limonite. 
The artifacts found during our second investigation are practically of the same 
character as those found by us before, though the experience of our former visit 
was emphasized, namely, that objects of superior quality had been placed in the 
mound proper and not in the elevated area which surrounded it. On this, the 
second visit, when our work was of necessity confined to the sloping ground, but 
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