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uppermost about 3 feet from the surface. No bones were found beneath it, but it 

 is our confident belief that infant remains, placed there originally, had disappeared 

 through decay. 



The bowl, of a type ver}- familiar to us during our investigations of the preced- 

 ing year, is dark in color with incised decoration representing, probably, a highlj- 

 conventionalized animal head with a circle presumably intended for an eye. This 

 design occurs six times. In addition, there are two pairs of curved figures, possibh' 

 representing legs, while two sets of animal jaws and teeth, in combination, appear 

 but once (Fig. 80). This last is a new feature to us, though single sets of jaws on 

 bowls in the district to the westward are common enough. Maximum diameter, 11 

 inches; height, 5.5 inches. 



This discovery of a cemetery is of some interest, establishing, as it does, the 

 existence of urn-burials at a point farther to the eastward than had been noted 

 before. 



Mound at St. Andrews, Washington County. 



This mound, in the western limits of the town, on property of Mr. J. A. Moates, 

 living nearby, literally has been dug to pieces. After a short trial, investigation 

 was abandoned by us. The mound seems to have been elliptical in outline origin- 

 ally, about 110 feet along the base NE. and SW. and 58 feet NW. and SE. The 

 height, probably, was about 7 feet. 



Mound neak Davis Point, Calhoun County. 



This mound, much dug into before our visit, lay in hammock land on property 

 of Mr. Hawk Massaliner, colored, who lives on the place. Its height was about 2 

 feet 9 inches; the basal diameter, 45 feet. It was completely dug down by us.. 



On the extreme eastern margin were burials and numbers of parts of different 

 vessels, mostly undecorated, some bearing the check-stamp. The burials and 

 earthenware continued in to the center of the mound, the area of deposit broadening 

 somewhat to the SE. 



As the digging continued burials became more numerous for a while, and 

 several were found included between the limits NE. and W. by S., though the 

 deposit of earthenware which farther in included whole vessels and broken vessels 

 of which all parts were present, and many sherds, was not present with burials in 

 that part of the mound. 



One small vessel, however, lay SW. of the center. 



The mound was largely composed of sand blackened bj^ admixture of organic 

 matter, thus excavations made and filled previous to our visit were hard to locate, 

 the sand being of the same color, therefore data, burial by burial, were not collected. 

 The closel}- flexed form, the bunch, scattered bones and masses of bones were found 

 in abundance. No skulls were recovered entire, but large fragments showed flatten- 

 ing of the frontal and occipital portions. 



One burial, a bunch, lying under oyster-shells, as Avas often the case with inter- 



