452 LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER FLINT RIVERS. 
MOUND NEAR Kerr’s LANDING, Decatur County, Ga. 
This mound, circular in outline, almost entirely of sand, with a height of 5 
feet 2 inches, a basal diameter of about 62 feet, in a field formerly under cultiva- 
Ете. 25.—Sherd. Mound near Munnerlyn’s Landing. (Half size.) 
tion, forming part of the plantation of Judge B. B. Bower, of Bainbridge, is about 
2 miles in a southeasterly direction from Kerr’s Landing, and about 5 miles below 
Bainbridge. A deep excavation about 30 yards 
west of the mound showed whence its material 
had come. 
The mound, which had been considerably 
dug into before our visit, was entirely leveled by 
us with the exception of parts around four trees. 
Near the center of the base was a former fireplace 
with considerable charcoal remaining. 
Human remains, encountered in twenty-five 
places, were all so badly decayed that the form of 
burial was evident in but few instances. The 
closely-flexed form, however, was represented in 
а some cases, as also probably were bunched burials. 
Mir ы сн ydp dta With one burial was а “celt” of volcanic 
rock, 6 inches in length—the only artifact found 
in direct association with the dead. With another burial was a mass of material, 
8 by 8 by 5 inches, determined by Dr. Harry F. Keller to be “clay mixed with a 
