572 THE NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA COAST REVISITED. 
In all twenty-four interments were unearthed, and, in addition, many skele- 
tons parts of which had been cut away in making other graves, and bones which 
seemingly had been gathered up and thrown in when the embankment was made. 
The form of burial was either flexed or at full length on the back, some burials 
being under a layer of shell. 
It was impossible to determine whether the interments had been made from 
the present surface of the embankment or in various stages of its construction, 
all the material being homogeneous. One burial extended about a foot into 
pure, white sand underlying the embankment. In this instance, at least, the 
interment had been made in a grave whose limits, however, we could not trace 
above the white sand. 
With the burials were artifacts as follows: 
Burial No. 5, extended on the back, had, at the outer side of the left shoulder, 
a small charmstone or pendant of shell. 
Burial No. 6, partly flexed to the right, was accompanied by a shell tool, 
probably a chisel. 
Burial No. 8, aboriginal disturbance, to some extent put in disorder by another 
burial. Under the upper part of the thorax was a drinking-cup made from a 
conch (Busycon), having a ceremonial hole knocked through the base. This cup 
was covered by a large fragment of pottery. | 
Burial No. 11, partly flexed to the left, had below it and erushed against it a 
Skeleton of a child. Possibly at the neck of the adult, or perhaps belonging to 
the child, were four pendants of shell and one of limestone. With these was a 
gorget of shell having a large, central, circular excision and rude, incised, con- 
centric circles on the convex side. 
Under the knees of the adult was a mass of sand tinged with hematite, in 
which were bits of sandstone and two rude pendants, one seemingly of sedimen- 
tary rock, the other of limestone. 
Burial No. 15, partly flexed to the right. Along the right forearm was an 
implement of bone. 
Burial No. 21, partly flexed to the left, had at the thorax an arrowpoint of 
flint. 
About 6 inches below an aboriginal disturbance were three rude limestone 
pendants and two of shell, all erect and grouped closely together, the grooved 
ends uppermost. 
Apart from human remains were a number of pointed implements of bone, 
two shell pendants, a pendant of limestone, a shell drinking-cup having the 
mortuary mutilation, a gouge made from part of the body whorl of a marine 
shell, a number of columelle of the conch wrought into chisels. 
Considerable, though not exhaustive, digging in the remainder of the embank- 
ment, most of which was decidedly lower than the southern part, failed to come 
upon burials, as was the case in our previous search. 
In consequence of this latest investigation at the Crystal River site it be- 
