230 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



ous colors, irregulaii}- placed, liad a height of 9 feet. Its basal diameter N. and S. 

 was 72 feet and 66 feet E. and W. Six excavations, all insignificant, had been made 

 previous to our visit. 



A feature of the mound was the comparatively central position of the burials. 

 With the exception of a small pocket of calcined fragments of human bones, no 

 trace of- human remains was met with until a point 15 feet from the center of the 

 mound was reached, and the majority of the twenty-six burials noted by us were 

 still more central. 



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Fig. 166. — Smoking pipe of earthenware. With Burial No. 3. Jackson mound. (About full size.) 



All burials were badly decayed, sometimes only crowns of teeth, small bits of 

 unidentified bone and even mere traces of bone, remaining in the sand. Single 

 skulls, skulls with a few long-bones and cei'tain long-bones without a skull, were 

 present. 



Burial No. 2, a skull and pai-ts of two long-bones, had in association sand col- 

 ored with hematite and four aiTowheads or knives, of chert. 



Burial No. 3, a crushed skull on certain long-bones, better preserved than other 

 burials in the mound, lay at a depth of 18 inches from the surface. With this burial 

 were a bit of pottery, one pebble and two smoking pipes of earthenware. One of 

 these pipes (Fig. 166), ornamented around the margin of the bowl and at the base, 



