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creek with the extremity of West bay, a part of St. Andrews bay, and about one 
hundred vards in from the shore of the bay. 
The mound, about 2 feet high and 25 feet in diameter, was dug out by us 
except some marginal parts, no burials being found, though doubtless some form- 
erly there had decayed away. 
Beginning near the margin of the eastern part of the mound and extending 
about 8 feet in, near the surface, was a deposit of pottery consisting of two whole 
vessels, small and undecorated, one being without the basal perforation, and 
fragments belonging to various other vessels, a mixture in which, in no instance, 
were found materials for a complete reconstruction. 
Among the fragments were represented the small check stamp and the com- 
plicated stamp. 
A number of parts of a vessel, found considerably separated, when put to- 
gether proved to have belonged to a most interesting vessel on which, in relief, 
had been representations of four duck heads (Fig. 19). Unfortunately not suffi- 
cient of this vessel was found to furnish a basis for a complete restoration of the 
extreme upper part. The base is intact, the breaking and scattering presumably 
fulfilling the ceremony. 
Several low mounds in pine woods in this region were explored without dis- 
covery of bones or of artifacts. 
MOUNDS iN Brock Hammock, Bay! COUNTY. 
A small mound in Brock Hammock, about 3 miles southerly from West Bay 
P. O., is described by us in a former report. Near this mound, on hammock 
land belonging to the West Bay Naval Stores and Lumber Co., St. Andrews, Fla., 
were two low rises, a short distance apart. 
Careful search with trial-holes unearthed dwelling-site debris, shells, fish- 
bones, sherds, ete. In one was a skeleton partly flexed to the right. 
MOUND WEST oF Burnt Мил, CREEK,’ Bay COUNTY. 
In pine woods belonging to the Sale-Davis Co., Southport, Fla., was a mound 
about one-quarter mile west of Burnt Mill creek and one mile from its mouth, 
approximately. This mound, about 2.5 feet in height from the outside and 3 
feet from base to summit, had a basal diameter of 45 feet. 
All the eastern part of the mound and also considerable on each side of it 
(in which latter digging nothing was found), as well as all the central portion, 
were dug out. 
On the base near the center was an inconsiderable deposit of human bones 
1 That part of St. Andrews bay in which these mounds are was included in Washington county 
at the time of our visit in 1902. 
2 Op. cit., p. 140. 
з In our 1902 report two mounds on the opposite side of this creek are described, op. cit., p. 140; 
et seq. : 
58 JOURN. A. №. S. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
