560 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
In the entire cemetery but two burials were found by us, each a small pocket of 
calcined fragments, probably of a single human skeleton thoroughly cremated. 
These lay in the pottery area, but not immediately with deposits, at depths respec- 
tively of 20 and 25 inches. It is barely possible that deeper burials escaped us 
since the cremated remains, like some of the pottery, lay in the yellow sand and 
eave no evidence of being graves, through intermixture of sands of different colors 
that could be followed down. 
None of the pottery, however, as stated, was found at a depth greater than 
20 inches, though determined prodding was done which would have discovered 
it at a considerably greater depth and it seems unlikely that burials would be 
much deeper than the mortuary offerings of pottery. It is most unlikely that 
this cemetery, with its very numerous deposits of earthenware fragments and 
of scattered sherds, was made for so limited a number of interments as were found 
by us or could have been displaced by the previous digger, whose work in the 
pottery area was, of course, much less than our own. Presumably many non- 
cremated skeletons had entirely decayed away, as they often do. 
The result of our work at this cemetery was a disappointment, in view of the 
number of entire vessels and of others which, though broken, were represented 
by all or by most of their parts, found by us in previous seasons to the westward 
along the Florida coast. 
MOUND NEAR OLD CREEK, WAKULLA COUNTY. 
In piney woods about one mile north northwest from the landing near the 
mouth of Old ereek, on property the ownership of which was not determined, 
was a rather flat, cireular mound about 2.5 feet high and 50 feet in diameter of 
base, composed of coarse sand. 
A trench 39 feet wide was dug in from the eastern margin a distance of 27 
feet, tapering at the end to a width of 22 feet. 
From the margin scattered fragments of pottery were encountered, and at 
times three or four bits together, bearing the small check stamp, a complicated 
stamp, or some interesting line or punctate markings, when decorated. One 
fragment of a large vessel shows a loop-handle with three small knobs where the 
loop joins the rim. Most of the fragments are of coarse ware, tempered with 
sand or with fine gravel. 
Eleven feet six inches in, at the southern side of the trench, one foot in depth, 
were remains of five vessels, half to three-quarters of each being present, all 
showing the basal perforation. All of these are of poor quality as to ware; four 
are undecorated. 
Near these fragments was a small bunched burial including remains of one 
skull. This burial and a few fragments of a femur found near the margin were 
the only human remains met in the mound. 
An upright bowl bearing a complicated stamp decoration was the only entire 
vessel encountered in the digging, which was not discontinued until long after 
the pottery deposit evidently had been exhausted. 
