LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER FLINT RIVERS. 451 
Тһе mound, of sandy clay, about 3.5 feet іп height and 50 feet across its cir- 
cular base, was dug by us to a width of from 3 to 4 feet around its marginal part. 
In addition, thirteen trial-holes were sunk into the remaining portion. No bones 
were encountered. 
In the soil was the upper part of a so-called hoe-shaped implement which had 
been broken transversely in a line with the perforation. 
Just below the surface of the mound was an undecorated bowl of inferior 
ware, having a flat, imperforate base. Within the bowl were fragments of shells 
and a soapstone pipe, undecorated, of a common type, which has a bowl about 
equaling in size the part intended to hold a stem, both parts being about square in 
transverse section. 
We regarded this bowl and its contents as a cache in a domiciliary mound. 
MOUND NEAR MUNNERLYN’S LANDING, Decatur County, Ga. 
This mound, of sand, 2 feet 9 inches in height and 50 feet across its circular 
base, on property controlled by Mr. Н. С. Allen, of Bainbridge, Ga., was in an old 
field about one-quarter mile in a southerly course from Munnerlyn’s Landing. 
The mound, which was completely dug away by us, with the exception of a 
portion around a small fruit tree, had sustained practically no digging previous to 
our visit, but evidently had been spread somewhat by cultivation. However, as 
none of the sixteen burials met with by us in the mound was less than one foot 
from the surface, it is not likely that any material damage had been wrought by 
the plow. Some of the skeletons were too badly decayed to enable determination 
of the form of burial; some indicated a close flexion. 
Near a burial was a fragment of a soapstone vessel, worked into an ellipsoidal 
form, 4.25 inches in length. Below the skull of another burial was the lower part 
of an earthenware vessel; otherwise, the burials, two of which lay near deposits 
of charcoal, were not associated with artifacts. Apart from human remains lay : 
а *celt;" a rude cutting implement of chert; several chips of chert, singly ; and 
a deposit of small masses of chert. 
A few feet in from the eastern margin of the mound began a deposit of earth- 
enware, including many small fragments of various vessels, some large parts of ves- 
sels, and several entire ones. The ware of all is inferior. Tempering with gravel or 
with shell is not present. Parts of one vessel show an exterior coating of red paint ; 
the small check-stamp was encountered once ; incised or punctate decoration is unrep- 
resented. Several vessels and parts of vessels bear faint, complicated-stamp deco- 
ration. Two large fragments have this form of decoration more distinctly marked, 
one bearing a design showing the human eye (Figs. 25, 26). 
Two vessels, the only ones presenting any divergence from ordinary forms, 
have flat, square bases with pronounced corners serving as feet. 
Two small, undecorated vessels were found together, apart from the ceremonial 
deposit of earthenware and, like all vessels and large parts of vessels from this 
mound, bear the basal, mortuary perforation. 
