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Vessel No. 3-3. — A pot of yellow ware, of about 1 pint capacity with four 

 encircling lines of oblong impressions below the rim. 



Vessel No. 34. — Two parts of this vessel, having no surface indicating the 

 former junction, were found some distance apart. The restoration is an arbitrary 

 one as the length of the cylinders which joined the globular extremities could be 

 estimated only (Fig. 246). 



Vessel No. 36. — A large pot 15 inches across the mouth, which fell into bits 

 before farther measurement could be obtained. 



Vessel No. 37. — A vessel of oi'dinary form, with rude punctate markings below 

 the rim, shown diagrammaticall}' in Fig. 247. 



A sherd from this mound with complicated stamp is shown in Fig. 248. 



Nichols' Mouxd, Wakulla County. 



The estate of Mr. Eli Nichols is situate on the north side of Ocklockonee bay 

 near where the Sopchoppy river unites with the bay. 



The principal mound, in a cultivated field not far from Mr. Nichols' residence, 

 is about one-half mile from the landing, in a northerly direction. 



The mound, which had suffered no digging except from insignificant efforts of 

 children on the place, was 5.5 feet in height and had a basal diameter of 100 feet 

 save to the SW. where a graded way 12 feet long and about 22 feet across, joined it. 



It was our belief from the start that this mound, wliich covered an area dispro- 

 portionate to its height and which had a great level summit plateau, liad been made 

 for domiciliary purposes. To assure oui'selves of the fact, however, and to learn, it 

 our surmise proved true, whether or not a dwelling site had been used for burial 

 purposes, as we have sometimes found to he the case, twenty men on an average 

 worked for two days on the mound, trenching in every direction. 



The mound, of dark brown sand, had a thin layer of small clam-shells [Rangia 

 cuneata) along the base and, beginning at a certain distance in, another layer of the 

 same kind of shells, about 1 foot in thickness which, at the starting point, was about 

 1 foot below the surface but three times that depth at the center of the mound. 



Burials were all superficial. In the slope and in the outer part of the summit 

 plateau they lay just below the upper shell layer and in each case the layer had 

 been cut through to bury them. In the more central part of the mound the burials 

 lay above the shell layer. 



Thirt^'-three burials were met with during the trenching. Twenty-two were 

 closely flexed. One laj' on the back with the knees flexed upward. Six were not 

 exactly determined as to form of burial owing to disturbance either aboriginal in 

 making another grave or by recent digging or by caving sand. Four lay at full 

 length on the back, in each case the feet pointing toward the margin of the mound. 

 Whenever skulls were in a condition to be examined artificial flattening was noted. 



Burial No. 7. — A flexed skeleton had a femur the neck of which had formerlv 

 sustained a fracture. This bone was sent to the United States Army Medical 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



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