45 LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER FLINT RIVERS. 
In several instances the bunched burial was indicated, as was the flexed form of 
burial—parts of one at least showing a close flexion of a skeleton lying on the back. 
In a number of cases charcoal lay with the bones, as did occasional masses of 
phosphate rock. Similar masses lay here and there in the mound, not closely 
associated with burials, though possibly in some instances accompanying bones had 
disappeared through decay. 
Two feet from the surface, well in from the margin but not occupying a central 
place in the mound, were the remains of what probably had been a flexed burial, 
below which was a thin layer of charcoal extending beyond at each end. Imme- 
diately above the bones, for the full length of the burial, were masses of phosphate 
rock. A similar mass lay beside the skull. 
With the exception of several bits of earthenware, no artifacts accompanied 
the bones in this mound. 
Separately in the soil were flakes and chips of chert; decayed fragments of 
conch-shells; several pebbles of fair size, one showing marks of use; a mass of 
galena (lead sulphide) about the size of a child’s fist, showing facets on all sides 
but one, on which was a slight depression; mica in two places; two handsome 
“celts” of hard rock not found in Florida, the larger 12.25 inches in length. 
In the eastern marginal part of the mound were, here and there, a few frag- 
ments of pottery together. Thirteen feet in, in the same line as the deposits of 
fragments, vessels or large parts of vessels, all badly crushed with but few excep- 
tions, were encountered together in twos and threes. With these were occasional 
decayed fragments of shell 
drinking-cups. 
These small deposits of 
vessels of shell and of earth- 
enware continued almost to 
the center of the mound. 
The vessels of earthenware 
and large parts of vessels, 
nearly all of inferior ware, 
and all, so far as could be 
determined, having the usual 
basal perforation, numbered 
twenty-eight in the aggre- 
| gate. Тһе decoration con- 
sists variously of a uniform coat of red paint; incised work on several occasions; 
the small check-stamp; the complicated stamp faintly and carelessly impressed ; 
punctate markings. 
We shall describe in detail vessels showing any features of interest, omitting 
the great majority which consists of pots and bowls, either plain or bearing com- 
monplace decoration. 
Vessel No. 2.—A bowl with punctate decoration shown in Fig. 2. 
Fic. 2.— Vessel No. 2. Mound below Hare's Landing. (Diameter 7.1 inches.) 
