238 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Vessel No. 7, an urn with slightly scalloped margin of which ports are missing, 

 has a complicated stamp decoration. The base is perforated. 



Vessel No. 10, a small pot, undecorated, has four feet. 



Rudimentary feet are on the bottom of part of a small vessel found unassocia- 

 ted in the sand and two feet are on half a vessel broken longitudinallj-. 



A smoking pipe of earthenware of the "Monitor" type lay unassociated. 

 Part of the mouth-piece which presumably was as long as the projection on the oppo- 

 site side of the bowl, is missing through an early fracture. Present length, 4.25 

 inches; height, 2 inches ; diameter of bowl, .7 of an inch. 



Throughout the mound were numbers of pebble-hammers, hammer-stones, peb- 

 bles and several broken hones. In one instance twenty pebbles and pebble-hammers 

 la}' together. There were present also many small masses of chert, possibly 

 "wasters." 



Four hatchets, or " celts " lay unassociated. 



A sheet of mica lay just below the surface. 



AVith seven pebbles and pebble-hammers was a large flake of chert, probably 

 used as a knife. 



Loose in the sand, was a knife of chert, perhaps formerly an arrowhead from 

 which a considerable part had broken longitudinall}-, involving the margin of the 

 shank. The broken side has been carefully chipped to remove the thick surface left 

 by the fracture (Fig. 177). 



Mound near Portek's Bar, Franklin County. 



This mound, in thick scrub, is on propertj- of Mr. T. J. Branch, living on the 

 place, situated one mile west of Green Point and a short distance from Porter's Bar. 



The mound, which had sustained but little previous digging, had deep depres- 

 sions in places around it whence the sand used in its building came. Its outline 

 was somewhat irregular, it being much steeper toward the east where it bordered a 

 brook than on the west where it sloped to the level of the surrounding country. Its 

 basal diameters were 60 feet and 78 feet; its height was between 10 feet and 11 feet. 

 It was totally dug down by us. 



The mound was composed of irregular strata and masses of sand, sometimes 

 white, sometimes yellow, and in places blackened with organic matter. This black 

 sand was particularly noticeable in the eastern part of the mound from the margin 

 in as long as the principal deposit of pottery was met with. 



Beginning at that part of the margin of the mound included between W. and 

 NW. and extending shortl}' after to SW. was a layer of oyster shells, of irregular 

 thickness, on the base of the mound. This layer, from 1 foot to 2.5 feet in thick- 

 ness, covering about one-quarter of the area of the mound, was purposely made and 

 not a shell-heap antedating the building of the mound. There were also two or 

 three local pockets of shell, each about 3 feet square and liaving the same thickness 

 as the principal layer. 



Human remains lay in all parts of the mound, which was contrary to our usual 



