THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 519 
SOME ABORIGINAL MOUNDS ON CHOCTAWHATCHEE RIVER. 
MOUNDS INVESTIGATED. 
(The mounds are given in order going up-stream.) 
Mound near Bunker Cut-off, Walton County, Florida. 
Mound near Otter Creek, Bay County, Florida. 
Mound near Wise Bluff, Walton County, Florida. 
Mound near Spring Hill Landing, Washington County, Florida. 
Mounds near Dead River, Walton County, Florida. 
Mound near Miller Field Landing, Washington County, Florida. 
Mound near Douglas Bluff, Walton County, Florida. 
Mound on the MeLaney Place, Houston County, Alabama 
Mounds on the Pate Place, Houston County, Alabama. 
MOUND NEAR BUNKER CUT-OFF, WALTON COUNTY, FLORIDA. 
The property of Mr. J. W. Windsor, resident on it formerly belonging to 
Mr. G. W. Lee, may be reached by going up Choctawhatchee river about three 
miles to Bunker cut-off, another mouth of the river, and continuing one-quarter 
mile, approximately, down the cut-off. On this property, in pine woods, was a 
mound of circular outline, 43 feet in diameter of base and 3 feet 8 inches high. 
The mound probably had been considerably spread by wear and by wash of rain, 
and doubtless in the past had a greater height and a less extended base. 
The mound was entirely dug down by us, great care being taken closely to 
observe the base which, no doubt the original surface, was one foot in thickness 
and much darker than the sand of the mound. It overlay undisturbed yellow 
sand having a slight admixture of clay. 
An excavation about 6 feet in diameter had been put down centrally in the 
mound by digging previous to ours, the sand filling the hole containing fragments 
of human bones. 
In the sand thrown back by our men in the demolition of the mound were: 
fragments of flint; a pitted hammer-stone; a large iron spike; a rude arrowhead or 
knife, of flint; an object of limestone, perhaps a knife, nearly semilunar in outline 
but having one end sharpened as for insertion in a handle; a number of sherds. 
These sherds, some from vessels of considerable size, show in one instance the 
small check-stamp, and in others incised designs similar to those figured? by us 
as on earthenware coming from cemeteries along the Florida coast between 
Perdido bay and Choctawhatchee river. Опе sherd with a graceful line decora- 
tion is shown in Fig. 1. 
1 Between Douglas Bluff and the town of Caryville, 13 miles following the course of ‘the stream, 
high water prevailing at the time of our visit prevented investigation of several low mounds and rises. 
Between Caryville and Geneva, Ala., 29 miles by water, no mounds were seen or heard of by our 
agents or by ourselves. 
2See “Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Northwest Florida Coast, Part I.” Journ. Асар. 
Nat. Scr. Purua., vol. XI. 
55 JOURN. A. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
