568 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
excavation made by some previous digger, which may have disturbed other parts 
of the burial. 
Apart from human remains, separate, were three sheets of mica and a rude 
bowl. 
No earthenware found in this mound had the basal perforation. 
MOUNDS on Hoa ISLAND, LEVY COUNTY. 
Hog island lies on the Gulf Coast between mouths of the Suwannee river. 
That part of the island on which the mounds are is owned jointly by Messrs. 
B. A. Thrasher, of Gainesville, Fla., and J. L. Robison, residing on the island. 
The mounds are on hammock land about three-quarters of a mile northeast 
from the first high land up Hog Island creek, in connection with a considerable 
shell deposit. 
One, on the shell ridge, having a diameter of 40 feet and a height of about 3 
feet, had been dug into to some extent by others. Investigation by us indicated 
it to be of shell covered with sand to a depth of about one foot in which were 
burials, the bones badly broken, some by previous disturbance, others probably 
owing to roots of the scrub palmetto that were thickly interwoven in the mound. 
Nearby was a somewhat larger mound that had been considerably dug into 
centrally. Seemingly it had been similar in construction to the smaller one, with 
the addition of some masses of limerock. 
Another mound on Hog island was visited by us in 1902.’ 
MOUND IN CEDAR. Keys, LEVY COUNTY. 
In the town of Cedar Keys, alongside the road bordering the water and near 
the great shell deposits there, is a mound on the property of Mr. W. H. Hale, of 
Cedar Keys. This mound, about 7 feet high and having diameters of 73 and 32 
feet at present, is largely of sand, though some shell is found in it in places. On 
the side toward the water, however, Mr. Hale informed us, much shell was hauled 
away for use on the streets of the town, thus accounting in part, at least, for the 
difference in diameters. On the water side shell must have predominated in the 
mound. 
Much digging by others before our coming had been done in the mound, and 
we were shown several celts and told of others and of quantities of shell beads, 
celts and beads all said to have been found superficially in the mound, or, in the 
case of some of the beads, to have been washed from it. 
Three excavations, 6 by 3.5 feet, 6 by 4 feet, 16.5 by 6 feet, were put down 
by us centrally in the mound to its base, a depth of 7.5 feet, all passing through 
sand in the main, though shell was encountered in comparatively small quantities. 
About one foot down fragments of human bones having belonged to different 
individuals were encountered, probably a recent disturbance. 
! Op. cit., p. 348. 
