564 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
Curiously enough, though vessels and sherds in this mound were notably of 
inferior quality, one exception, a large fragment of good ware, bore an interesting 
design in red and in white pigment. 
'The humps, rises, and low ridges between the two mounds proved to be places 
of abode, the sand being black from admixture of organie matter and containing 
quantities of marine shells, mainly of the oyster, fish-bones, fragments of turtle- 
shell, bits of earthenware, etc., and being without burials so far as investigated. 
SITE ON THE LEWIS PLACE, TAYLOR COUNTY. 
In 1902 we visited the Aucilla river, lying anchored in the Gulf outside the 
river’s mouth, not venturing in with our steamer owing to the number of limerocks 
present near the entrance and in the bed of the stream, but entering with the aid 
of bateaus. 
This season the possession of a motor launch gave us access to sites farther up 
the stream than we had been able to visit before, our investigation, however 
including the Lewis Place (the owner, Mr. B. F. Lewis, residing there), described 
in our earlier report. At the time of our first visit the mound at this place, then 
in part occupied by a small stable with an enclosure, yielded very interesting 
pottery from the eastern part exclusively. It was also found to contain, where 
dug into, burials unaccompanied by artifacts, but in many instances interred 
under masses of limerock of the kind found along the coast, beginning at St. 
Marks and continuing down a long distance. | 
This year, finding the stable and its appurtenance had been removed, we dug 
the mound completely. 
Fifty-two burials were encountered, including the flexed, the bunch, skulls 
apart from the rest of the skeleton, all forms of burial in the main similar to those 
found at the time of our first visit, though the proportion of flexed burials en- 
countered was much greater in the later investigation. 
There were also several burials of parts of skeletons. 
As noted before, some of the burials lay under masses of limerock, others 
being without them. | 
No burials of children were found at the first investigation, while five were 
unearthed at our second visit, including one of considerable interest. In a 
shallow grave, 7 feet from the surface, about in the center of the beginning of the 
mound, as was clearly shown by the sharp curve of strata piled over it, but not 
exactly at the center of the base of the completed mound, was the skeleton of a 
child of about eight or ten years, lying under masses of limestone. Apparently 
we have here the nucleus of an important mound 64 feet in diameter and 6.5 feet 
in height, containing only the skeleton of a child. 
One burial (Number 15) closely flexed face down, knees to the right, had 
charcoal in association and one side of part of the pelvis colored with red pigment. 
The skull of this skeleton was the only one to be saved from this place. 
1 Op. cit., p. 323, et seq. 
