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Seldom before have we found a mound so full of promise as to yield of artifacts 

 at the start, and so disappointing during the remainder of the investigation. 



Burial No. 2, (see plan) a skeleton partially flexed on the left side, lay in the 

 northern slope of the mound, 2.5 feet from the surface. Under the thorax were 

 many fragments of part of a vessel with a decoration of incised lines, and crimson 

 paint in places. Three feet to the west was a vessel, upright, of about six quarts 

 capacity, of undecorated ware, in fragments through pressure of sand. 



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Fig. 157. — Vessel with Burial No. 2. Another view. Mound A. Pierce mounds, near Apalacliicola. (Two-thirds size.) 



Immediately back of this one was another of about the same size, undecorated, 

 with part of the bottom knocked out. About 1 foot farther in the mound, on its 

 side, lay a vessel of yellow paste with two compartments, one of which, crushed by 

 sand and roots, has been cemented together. The decoration consists of incised lines 

 and bands of crimson paint as shown in Fig. 155. But one compartment has the 

 basal perforation. Height, 4.6 inches; maximum diameter, 7.1 inches; diameter of 

 a single aperture, about 3 inches. 



