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SjDecial burials not included in the above were as follows : 



Two skulls, a femur and a radius. 



Four skulls with two long-bones. 



Three skulls and scattered bones. 



A skeleton without pelvis or lower extremities. Beneath the place where the 

 pelvis should have been was another skull, probabl}' an aboriginal disturbance. 



Two skulls with scattered bones. 



Four skulls with scattered bones and, nearb}-, the lower extremities of a skele- 

 ton. In place of the pelvis was a skull and beneath it another skull. 



A skeleton lying on the back with tlie legs flexed upward. 



Three skulls and one humerus. 



In a grave was the skeleton of a child at full length on the back and another 

 child's skeleton Ij'ing flexed to the left. Above these were many oyster-shells and 

 numerous masses of lime-rock, from 3 to 8 inches in diameter. 



A bunched burial with four skulls. 



Various unclassified burials. 



In the elevated ground surrounding the mound, masses of oyster-shells almost 

 invariably lay above the burials and sometimes extended well to the sides. To 

 this rule there were but three exceptions. 



In the mound proper, on the other hand, forty burials unassociated with oyster- 

 shells were noted, though there, also, many burials were covered by them. 



While no crania were in a condition to save, parts of man}^ showed no cranial 

 flattening. 



Many of the bones bore marks of pathological lesions. 



Artifacts were very numerous in the elevation and in the mound, though those 

 from the mound proper were of much higher grade, as a rule, than were the artifacts 

 from the sloping ground around it. There was no general deposit of earthenware or 

 of other objects. While certain artifacts were found unassociated, there was every 

 indication that most of them had lain with burials which had suflFered aboriginal 

 disturbance. 



In this place of aboriginal abode it was evident we were no longer among the 

 mounds of the northwest Florida coast, with their great deposits of earthenware 

 placed for the dead in common, in the eastern part of the mound. Here the vessels 

 were widely scattered and were found singly. Outside the mound but few vessels 

 were met with, though little piles of sherds, bits of inferior ware fi'om various ves- 

 sels, were numerous. 



There were present in the elevated ground, as well as in the mound, a limited 

 number of sherds bearing the complicated stamp, the design being chiefly one of 

 concentric circles, a popular pattern along the central west-coast of Florida, and 

 which we found in the great shell-heap at Cedar Keys. 



From the mound proper came a number of vessels, some of inferior ware, others 

 of excellent material. 



The most striking object in earthenware met with during the investigation is 



