304 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NW. FLORIDA COAST. 



Mound at Panacka Springs, Wakulla County. 



This mound, in full view of the landing at the Springs, has a height of 4 feet 

 and a basal diameter of 75 feet, approximately. It had been badly dug into before 

 our visit. 



It was examined b}' us with permission of Mr. Hall, owner of the large mound 

 in the neighborhood. 



Many trenches showed the mound to have been domiciliary- in character. 

 Except at one place, where, for a considerable area and depth, it was red from the 

 action of a large and long-continued fire, the material of the mound was black, but 

 not of the same character as the dark sand found with mortuary deposits in 

 other mounds, this material being probably from low-lying ground nearby. 



Mound near Spring Creek, Wakulla County. 



Spring creek runs into Oj'ster bay, a part of Apalachee bay. The landing on 

 Spring creek is where the great springs, which give the creek its name, pour into it. 



This mound, in hammock, on property of Mr. N. R. Walker of Crawfordville, 

 Fla., is somewhat over one mile in a northeasterly direction from the landing at the 

 springs in Spring creek. 



The mound, in the form of a ridge, slopes gently upward from E. to W., 

 attaining its greatest height, 8 feet, near the western end, after which the ascent is 

 comparatively abrupt. The diameter of base, longitudinally, is 104 feet; trans- 

 versely it is 68 feet. The mound, which was seemingly intact, had various deep 

 depressions along its margin, whence sand had come for use in its construction. 



Twenty-five men digging two days, first went through marginal parts without 

 result of interest, and then gridironed the mound with trenches in all directions. 



No general deposit of earthenware was met with and only nine burials were 

 encountered. It was clear to us that many interments must have disappeared from 

 the mound through decay since so few were met with, and also because a number of 

 objects were found unassociated with human remains, but lying in pockets of dark- 

 colored sand where presumably bones had been. Such objects included : an elon- 

 gated, pear-shaped pendant ; mica in a number of places, some sheets rudely given 

 the outline of lanceheads ; half of a gorget ; two pendants and part of one, lying 

 together ; a slab of fossilized wood ; and the usual quota of bits of chert, hammer- 

 stones, pebble-hammers and the like. 



Near the margin was a rude, undecorated pot with the basal perforation. 

 Parts of the rim were missing. 



Near the surface, at different points, were two undecorated bowls, badly broken. 



About 4 feet from the surface, at the western end, where the mound was highest, 

 were two oblate spheroids of earthenware, evidentlj- parts of the same vessel. The 

 lower one, imperforate, is undecorated. The upper one has a neat, uniform design, 

 the incised lines and punctate markings of which are filled with a yellow material as 

 shown in Fig. 284. We cannot say to a certainty that the vessel was originally as 



