THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 925 
decoration—one a complicated stamp, the other lines of pinched markings near 
the aperture. Five feet from this deposit were two pots, one decorated with two 
parallel, encircling lines, the other having a simple punctate design. These had 
suffered the usual ceremonial breaking of the base, as had all the vessels from this 
place of which sufficient parts were recovered to permit determination. 
Still in the eastern part of the mound, but farther in, perhaps a continuation 
of the deposit, were three vessels some distance apart, two undecorated, one 
having below the opening a band filled in with a complicated stamp. Two of 
these vessels, like most of the others from this place, were found to have parts 
missing, probably breakage sustained in household use which impaired the value 
of the vessels and made them especially fitted for mortuary deposit. With these 
receptacles was a small mass of galena, largely oxidized into sulphate and саг- 
bonate of lead. 
Three burials were encountered, all in the eastern part of the mound, each 
consisting of fragments of a single skull and of various other bones. With one 
burial were three undecorated pots and the lower part of a toy vessel, also un- 
decorated. 
A large fragment belonging to the skull of this burial had an elliptical per- 
foration, evidently old, that might well have been made by a spike-shaped arrow- 
head, which, however, if such were the ease, presumably had been withdrawn 
before the interment, as nothing of the kind was found in the mound. 
MOUND NEAR MILLER FIELD LANDING, WASHINGTON COUNTY, FLORIDA. 
In pine woods, about one mile southerly from Miller Field Landing, on 
property of Mr. Fleming Yan, living nearby, was a mound 30 feet in diameter 
and 2 feet in height, having at the time of our visit an excavation in the central 
part, 6 feet square, and a trench about 4 feet wide, from the western margin to 
the center. This remainder of the mound was practically demolished by us. 
Fic. 5.—Decoration. (Two-thirds size.) 
