546 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
MOUND NEAR Davis POINT, Bay COUNTY. 
About one mile northerly from Davis Point, on East bay, a part of St. Andrews 
bay, on property of Mrs. A. W. Kirven living nearby, was a mound on the verge 
of hammock' land, about 3 feet in height and 45 feet in diameter of its circular 
base. Evidence of but little previous digging was apparent. 
Еіс. 22.— Vessel No. 1. Mound near Davis Point. (Height 6.25 inches.) 
Having found with the aid of steel rods the pottery deposit where we expected 
it would be, we dug a trench at the eastern margin of the mound, carrying it some 
distance beyond the center. This trench, 28 feet wide at the beginning, narrowed 
to a width of 12 feet at the end, its length being 30 feet. 
The pottery deposit commenced almost due east in the margin of the mound, 
and continued in about 13 feet. It was not a layer, being somewhat scattered, 
and, beginning with a number of miscellaneous sherds, continued composed of 
vessels sometimes in groups, sometimes separately, with numerous fragments 
associated Seven feet from the margin of the mound the deposit was an equal 
1 [t may be well to repeat that the hammock in southern United States bears the palmetto, the 
oak, and other woods, and the term is used in contradistinction to pine woods, the prairie, the marsh, 
and the swamp. 
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