554 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
the complicated stamp faintly impressed in various designs. Incised decoration 
of poor quality is on one vessel and also on a single sherd. All have the basal 
mortuary mutilation. 
One vessel, almost cylindrical, bearing a complicated stamp, lacks the entire 
rim. The part remaining has a diameter of 3.5 inches and is 8.5 inches in length. 
Part of a quartz pebble, and a large barbed arrowhead of flint, were found 
apart from burials. 
When our trench, which followed the base of the mound, was 18 inches deep, 
it came upon gray sand along the lower part, very compact and hard to dig, 
seemingly showing the effect of heat and having throughout particles of charcoal 
intermingled. This hard material, throughout covered by about 1.5 foot of 
ordinary sand, was still present when our digging was discontinued beyond the 
center of the mound, and was then about 2 feet in thickness. Presumably the 
entire nucleus of the mound eonsisted of this burnt sand. 
The pottery latest found lay in this material, as did all the five burials en- 
countered but one, none of these, however, being with the pottery. 
Seven feet northeast from the center of the mound was a small deposit of 
calcined human bones. The other bones, single skulls in three instances, and 
once a skull having remnants of long-bones near it, were badly decayed. 
MOUND NEAR О. К. LANDING, CALHOUN COUNTY. 
About one mile in from Apalachicola river, following the road from O. K. 
Landing, in woods, is a mound about 3.5 feet in height and 35 feet across the 
circular base. Its ownership was not ascertained. Evidence of previous 
digging in it to a limited extent was apparent. 
The eastern part of this mound, dug out by us, yielded two burials represented 
by fragments of bone. With one burial was a mass of galena, about the size of a 
fist of a child, pitted in several places as by use. 
The pottery deposit consisted of various fragments showing, when decorated 
at all, the small check stamp, the complicated stamp, or incised designs of rudi- 
mentary character, with one exception, where somewhat better work is apparent. 
There are also several undecorated bowls and another with encircling area 
about 2 inches in width beginning just below the rim, adorned with parallel 
ridges thrown into relief by trailing a tool with remittent pressure. The usual 
mortuary hole knocked through the base has been duplicated through one side 
in this vessel. 
A small lump of galena was found apart from any burial. 
MOUND NEAR Rock BLUFF LANDING, LIBERTY COUNTY. 
We found at this place but a remnant, a large trench having been put through 
the mound from east to west by others before our coming, who, in addition, had 
extended the trench to include all the central part of the mound. 
The mound, on the slope of a hill, originally may have been about 4 feet in 
