196 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



five crescentic figures enclosing a Crosshatch design (Fig. 115). Maximum diame- 

 ter, 7.5 inches; height, 3.8 inches. 



Vessel No. 6. — A handsome globular vessel of about 2 quarts capacity, of excel- 

 lent ware, decorated with a meander running through a field of punctate markings 

 (Fig. 116). 



Vessel No. 7. — In shape an inverted, truncated, four-sided pyramid with slightly 

 rounded corners and edges. The rim, about 1 inch in breadth, projects inward 



horizontally (Fig. 117). The decoration, 

 incised, is similar on two sides. Of the 

 three different designs, one is simple cross- 

 hatch, one is shown in the half-tone, and 

 the third is given diagrammatically in Fig. 

 118. 



But five burials were met with, and 

 these were in the NE. and N. parts of the 

 mound. 



Burial No. 1. — In a shallow grave be- 

 low the base was a skeleton closely flexed 

 under oyster-shells, with the skull badly 

 crushed, as were all found by us in this 

 mound. 

 Burial No. 2. — A bunch of bones with four skulls, under oyster-shells. 

 Burial No. 3. — A closely flexed skeleton lying on the base of the mound, with 

 no shells in association. 



Burial No. 4. — In a shallow grave, closely flexed, was a skeleton with skull 

 badly broken, but not sufficiently so to prevent evidence of flattening being apparent. 

 This burial did not lie under oyster-shells, but was covered with a mass of small 

 conchs {Fulgur pugilis). 



Burial No. 5. — A closely flexed skeleton covered by sand alone. 



A large and well-made "celt" lay within a few feet of one of the burials. 



Fig. llti. — Vessel No. 7. Decoration. Mound near 

 Strange's Landing. (Half size.) 



Mound near Baker's Landing, Calhoun County. 



The mound, about 400 yards WSW. from the landing, East bay, is in hammock 

 land, on property of Mr. Jonah Baker, living nearby. 



The mound, which was 5 feet 4 inches high and 72 feet in basal diameter, had 

 been woefully dug into. Besides several trenches, a hole in the center, 22 feet by 

 25 feet, involving the entire summit plateau, had been put down by former diggers. 

 The eastern slope, however, was practically intact. Deep depressions at points 

 adjoining the base of the mound showed whence material for its making had come. 

 In an adjoining field was a shell deposit including a circular enclosure of shell, now 

 almost ploughed away. 



Nearly the remainder of the mound was dug through by us resulting in the 

 finding of nine burials, all but one under considerable quantities of oyster-shells. 



