548 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
Vessel No. 4 has a body composed of two lobes. Above the low neck appears 
a rude head of a bird, with prominent eyes. Height 5.5 inches. 
Vessel No. 5 has been a compartment vessel having three divisions in line, 
one of which unfortunately is absent. "Throughout our first visit to the north- 
west Florida eoast numerous compartment vessels of various forms were found. 
Seven burials, all badly decayed, were encountered in the digging, only one 
having an artifact in association. Five were small bunched burials; each having 
a single skull; one consisted of a skull alone, and Burial No. 1, found 30 inches 
from the surface, at the northern limit of the pottery deposit, was a small, bunched 
burial having two skulls. With it were a few oyster shells and a celt of volcanic 
rock, 8 inches in length. 
Burial No. 2, the isolated skull, was at the end of the pottery deposit, nearer 
the center of the mound. The remaining five burials lay apart from the deposit 
at some distance from it laterally, or beyond it in the mound. 
About on the base of the mound was a small deposit of charcoal. Two flat 
pebbles, one of which had been used as a hammer, and several fragments of 
marine shells, were included in the pottery deposit. 
MOUND NEAR FARMDALE, BAY COUNTY. 
About 2 miles due east from Farmdale, in pine woods bordering a small 
hammock just back of the bay shore, on property of Mr. 5. М. Smith, of Auburn, 
Fla., was a mound about 2 feet high and 35 feet across the base. A small excava- 
tion had been made in it prior to our coming. 
A trench along the base, 35 feet wide at its beginning in the eastern margin 
of the mound, was carried by us 31 feet, passing through its center, gradually 
diminishing in width until at the end it was but 10 feet across. 
About 6.5 feet east from the center commenced a deposit of charcoal of con- 
siderable size, the original limits of which, unfortunately, we could not determine, 
as the central digging, before referred to, had disturbed it. Though the sand 
below the charcoal showed evidence of heat, there was not sufficient to induce us 
to believe that a fire had been maintained there, but rather to suppose that burn- 
ing wood had been placed on the sand and covered. Moreover, the charcoal 
was in large masses and no ashes accompanied it. 
With the charcoal were a few fragments of calcined human bones. Probably 
the greater part of the deposit had been removed by the early digging. 
Near the charcoal and cremated remains were two lanceheads of flint, near 
together, one 3.9 inches in length, having lost a barb; the other a handsome piece 
6.2 inches long. 
About 18 inches down, 8 feet northwest from the center of the mound, were 
traces of bones, probably human. No other burials were met by us in the mound, 
though fragments of bones thrown out by the previous digging were encountered. 
At the margin of the mound was a small pot. The deposit of earthenware 
scattered here and there, including eleven vessels, many whole or nearly so, and a 
