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height and 45 feet in diameter. It was on property of Mr. Richard Lester, 
living nearby, and was about one mile east northeast in a straight line from 
Rock Bluff Landing on Apalachicola river. 
Considerable of the eastern part of the mound remained beyond the trench, 
which also was shallow in the outer portions, passing over considerable of the 
pottery deposit. 
Thirteen burials were found by us, all too decayed to give any idea as to form. 
These burials were exceptional for this region in that a number of them lay in 
the area of the pottery deposit and with one individually had been placed a pot, 
while with another was a quantity of shell beads. Evidence of the use of fire 
was present with several of the burials. 
In sand thrown back by the former diggers was a delicately wrought arrow- 
head of flint, and a beautiful celt seemingly of eruptive rock, 7 inches long, 
tapering at one end almost to a point. 
In the eastern part of the mound such pottery deposit as was found included 
vessels and parts of vessels bearing the check stamp, the complicated stamp, 
several with interesting incised designs, and one in fragments with some parts 
missing, since restored, having two parts roughly globular joined by a cylindrical 
portion in which are four excisions. Below the rim is a kind of collar, the upper 
surface of which shows trailed decoration, while beneath it is a series of vertical 
imprints made with a tool. A mortuary perforation has been knocked through 
the base (Plate XV). 
One bowl from this mound has, instead of the basal perforation knocked out 
after the baking of the vessel, a hole carefully fashioned previous to the firing of 
the clay. 
MOUND NEAR Harpnut LANDING, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA. 
About one-half mile southwest from Hardnut Landing, on the right-hand 
side of Flint river, going up, now in woods but said to have been in a cultivated 
field in former times, at present the property of Mr. Samuel White, of Mt. 
Pleasant, Fla., was a mound 65 feet in diameter and 2 feet 4 inches in height. 
The diameter no doubt had been increased by the plow at the expense of the 
height. 
The mound was dug throughout by us with the exception of some marginal 
parts, near which no burial or artifact was found, and which perhaps had been 
spread by cultivation. 
Twenty-one burials were encountered, all, with one exception, apart from the 
earthenware deposit in the mound, and having with them no object except a 
sheet of mica in one instance. Badly decayed and only in part remaining, they 
indicated the flexed burial so far as we could determine, with one exception, a 
bunch. Evidence of the use of fire was present with some, as, for example, 
Burial No. 1, which apparently had been on the back, the knees drawn up, a 
space that might be expected under such circumstances intervening between the 
