174 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Vessel No. 44. — An undecorated vessel of inferior ware, holding about 1 pint, 

 with globular body and upright quadrilateral neck. 



Vessel No. 46. — Rather heart-shaped in outline of body, with neck slightly 

 expanding and surrounded by incised parallel lines. From the rim extend four 

 equidistant horizontal projections. The ware is inferior (Fig. 78). Height, 7 

 inches; diameter of body, 6.6 inches. 



Vessel No. 49. — A flattened sphere with upright rim, with decoration much 

 similar to that on Vessel No. 14 from this mound. 



A sherd with complicated stamp decoration is shown in Fig. 79. 



In the pottery deposit were several parts of a vessel of better quality of ware 

 and more artistic decoration than characterized any other earthenware from this 

 mound. On one fragment is the head of a duck, not projecting from the rim but 

 in relief on the side. 



Mounds near Bear Point, Washington County. 



In thick hammock, about 100 yards from the water and one-quarter of a mile 

 from Bear Point, approximatel}-, on property of Lieutenant-Commander Francis H. 

 Sheppard, U. S. N., retired, of St. Andrews, Fla., was a mound which had under- 

 gone but little digging previous to our visit. Its basal diameter N. and S. was 60 

 feet and 50 feet E. and W. Its position on a slope made its height somewhat 

 deceptive. On one side the altitude was but 20 inches. On the opposite side, the 

 east, its height was about 4 feet. It was completely dug down by us. 



The first burial was found in the NE. part of the mound, 7 feet in from the 

 margin. Other burials were met with in the same direction, continuing in or a little 

 to the eastward or to the NNE. Near the center one burial to the N. was noted. 

 One lay in the center. These burials, twelve in all, had occasionally a few oyster 

 shells in the sand above them. Three skeletons were closely flexed on the right 

 side and one on the left. One skeleton occiipied a squatting position. There were 

 three bunched burials and scattered bones were found in three places. A few decay- 

 ino; fragments were all that remained of one burial. 



All bones were badly decayed. No skulls were saved, though fragments were 

 met with sufficiently large to show that cranial compression had been practised. 



A "celt" of volcanic rock lay with a burial. Another, about 4 feet distant 

 from human remains, also of volcanic rock, 9 inches long and two inches across the 

 cutting edge, tapered gracefully to a blunt point .5 inch in diameter at the 

 other end. 



A ball of lead sulphide was found unassociated. 



A number of sherds, undecorated, with the check stamp or with the compli- 

 cated stamp, were in the NE. margin of the mound and continued into the mound, 

 lying here and there. Near the center of the mound was an undecorated vessel in 

 fragments and at the center was a small undecorated vessel, resembling the longi- 

 tudinal section of a gourd. Part of the handle, which was solid, is missing. There 

 is a basal perforation. 



