CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE NAY. FLORIDA COAST. 



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here and there somewhat below the surface. These masses were often much hiriier 

 than those described as being in the mound near the Auciihi river. 



Mound A was of yellow sand except where pottery deposits la}-, where it was 

 much darker in color. 



Human remains were found twentv-nine times and, as some of the burials were 

 badly decayed, it is possible that others had entirely disappeared. As usual, there 

 were present the bunch, the flexed burial and the lone skull. A few burials, falling 

 in caved sand, did not afford data as to their form. 



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Fig. 322.— Vessel No. 4. Mound A, Wnriiur river, (.■\bout five-uinths size.) 



Of the twenty-nine burials, many of which were on or near the base, nine lay 

 immediately beneath the rocks, but in each case these burials were superficial, the 

 least so being an interment 3.5 feet deep, almost in the middle of the summit 

 plateau, around which had been many masses of rock, instead of the customary two 

 or three. This burial had been disturbed hy the only previous digging in the mound, 

 a hole 4 by 2 by 6 feet deep, which had cutaway part of the skeleton. In addition 

 to this case, those under rocks, in this mound, were two bunched burials ; two Hexed 

 burials; two skulls together; two skulls with long-bones, together; a lone skull ; 

 and bones which fell in caved sand. 



No skulls were saved from this mound, but certain ones permitted determination 

 as to the existence of cranial compression. None was evident. 



With one burial was a •' celt ; '" with another, a fiat rectangular gorget, probably 



