378 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, CENTRAL FLORIDA W.-COAST. 



Hodges, of Cedar Keys. The mound was literally honeycombed with pits and 

 trenches, some of which, as we discovered, had been dug a second time, material 

 from one trench filling a former one, which had again been dug by later disturbers. 

 In fact, a strip on one side of the mound and a small portion near the base, at the 

 center, were the onl}' undisturbed parts. Trees growing near the top, by exposed 

 roots, showed the mound to have been, at one time, alx)ut 2.5 feet higher than at 

 the time of our visit when its height was about 3 feet. Its basal diameters were 58 

 feet by 45 feet. 



The mound, new material and old, was dug through by us to the lime bed-rock 

 found in these parts, with the exception of small portions around three trees. 



Thirty-two undisturbed burials were met with by us. Twenty-eight were ot 

 the bunched variety. One skull lay with part of an ulna. One skeleton was closely 

 flexed on the right side and two were closely flexed on the left side. One of these 

 lay in a shallow pit, the only one met with in the mound, and had above it dark 

 sand with scattered oyster-shells. All bones were badly decayed and no skulls 

 were preserved. Large fragments, however, showed no cranial flattening. 



Fig. 15. — Part of vessel of earthenware. Mound near Bear Landing. (Half size.) 



With burials were some bits of pot, in one instance, and a " waster" of chert, 

 in another. There were also in the mound two flakes of chert, evidently used as 

 knives ; one clam-shell ; several small masses of lime-rock ; a pebble with one end 

 smoothed, as by use as a polisher; one pebble-hammer; two chert arrowheads found 

 separately ; two clam-shells with depressions at opposite sides, as for a handle. 



In the SW. margin of the mound, placed in the lower part of an undecorated 

 vessel of inferior ware, was a bowl which fell into fragments upon removal, a part 

 having been crushed b}- roots. On one side of this bowl, rudely done, was part of 

 an incised design, as though the decoration of the bowl had been started and 

 abandoned (Fig. 15). Near this bowl were various scattered fragments of inferior 

 ware. Two feet away was a burial. 



There was also in the mound various undecorated sherds, and fragments con- 

 stituting the upper part of a bowl with thickened rim, which had been decorated 

 with red pigment. 



