CERTAIN ABORIGINAL RExMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 167 



Vessel No. 4. — Globular, about 3 quarts capacity, thickening at the rim. 

 decoration is a faint complicated stamp. 



The 



Fig. 66.— Sberd. Htilley niouiul. (Half size.) 



Vessel No. S. — (^)uadrilateral, of 

 yellow ware, broken into man\' fras;- 

 ments when found. The rim, which 

 turns inward nearly at right angles, has 

 incised decoration. There are incised 

 and punctate designs on three sides, 

 that on the fourth having been worn 

 away. The bowl with the decoration 

 on one side is shown in Fig. 62, while 

 the designs on two other sides are 

 given diagrammatically in Fig. 63. 



Vessel No. 12. — A vase made to 

 hold about 3 quarts, with hemispheri- 

 cal body and neck at first constricted, 

 then llaring, around which is a com- 

 plicated stamp decoration (Fig. 64). 

 With this vessel were sheets of mica. 



The complicated stamp designs on 

 two sherds are shown in Figs. 65, 66. 



SowELL Mound, Washington County. 



This mound, on property of Mr. Jesse Sowell of West Bay P. 0.. Florida, is in 

 scrub about 1 mile in a westerly direction from Bear Point. Previous to our visit 

 a trench 12 feet across had been dug from the northern margin of the mound almost 

 to the center. The height of the mound was 4.5 feet; the basal diameter, 50 feet. 

 A great depression whence the sand for the mound had been taken was at its 

 southern margin. All parts of the mound, not before dug, were carefully gone 

 through by us, beginning at the extreme outer limit. 



On the extreme eastern margin burials were encountered consisting of Hexed 

 skeletons, bunched burials, scattered bones and masses of bones, one of these masses 

 having no less than six skulls. These burials extended without intermission until 

 the center of the mound was reached. 



At first the attempt was made to keep count of the burials, but the difficulty 

 to determine where one ended and another began forced us to limit ourselves to a 

 tally of skulls only, and of these there were one hundred and twenty-one. 



All burials but three were confined to the eastern part of the mound between 

 the margin and the center, and were, to a certain extent, superficial, lying between 

 a few inches and 2 feet from the surface. Three burials came from the western 

 part of the mound, one 19 feet from the margin, the other two a few feet f\irther in. 

 Two of these burials were on the base. One was about 2.5 feet from the surface. 



The bones in this mound were in a far better state of preservation than are 



