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MoujfD NEAR Carrabelle, Franklin Couxty. 

 Within sight of the water, on the right hand side going down the Carrabelle 

 river, about 1.5 miles by land in NW. direction from Carrabelle, is a mound 45 feet 

 across and about L5 feet high, which had been much dug into before our visit. On 

 the surface were small fragments of human bones. Considerable trenching vielded 

 nothing of interest. 



Tucker Mound, Franklin County. 



In sight of the water, which was about 200 yards distant, about one mile from 

 the lower end of Alligator Harbor, on the north side, on property, the ownership of 

 which is uncertain, was a mound about SO feet in diameter N. and S. and 86 feet E. 

 and W. The slope on the eastern side was much more gentle than elsewhere, form- 

 ing a graded way. The height of the mound from the general level on the west side 

 was 8.5 feet. A measurement taken near the center, from the surface to the base, 

 showed 9.5 feet. 



At various points around the mound were excavations whence the sand came 

 for the building. The mound was entirely demolished by us. 



The discovery of burials began at the very margin and continued in. being strictly 

 confined to the eastern and southern sides includ^^d between the compass points NE. 

 and SW. In the other parts of the mound were neither burials nor artifacts, with 

 the exception of one undecorated vessel partly broken, probably an accidental intro- 

 duction. Here we have a striking example of the great quantity of sand piled in 

 certain mounds simply to round out a part used for interments. 



Burials, which were mainly in the eastern part of the mound, decreased in 

 number as the digging continued and disappeared entirely 9 feet from the center. 

 Especial care was taken by us as to method and position of interments, since this 

 mound, which was of considerable size, was almost intact at our coming, having in 

 it but two or three holes and these were less than one yard in each of their three 

 dimensions. 



Seventy-nine burials were noted by us, including the flexed ; the bunched, 

 which sometimes had several skulls; the lone skull; and scattering bones. 



Many skulls were past determination as to flattening. The majority of those 

 whose condition permitted a decision distinctly showed flattening but certain others 

 just as distinctly did not. 



Burial No. 2, consisting of two decayed fragments of bone, had with it two 

 barrel-shaped beads of galena (lead sulphide) each about .9 of an inch in length and 

 .85 of an inch in maximum diameter. Though cubes of galena are often present in 

 mounds as are masses of the material showing use as hammers, we have but once 

 before, to our recollection, met with an ornament of galena, namely, a bead in the 

 great mound at Mt. Royal, Putnam Co., Fla. With the two beads was a "celt." 

 Incidentally, we may say seven of these implements came from the Tucker mound, 

 all directly with burials except two in whose neighborhood, possibly, bones had disap- 

 peared through decay. All these " celts " but one were in marginal parts of the 



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