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There were also in the mound : marine shells, more or less broken [Fu/gur, 

 Fasciolarid) with the lower outer portions removed, and sharpened at the lower end 

 of the columella so that, when the upper part of the shell was held in the hand, 

 thej could be used to b(jre or to pierce with ; chips, flakes and fragments, of chert ; 

 several arrowheads or knives, also of chert, some of which were broken, some only 

 rudely blocked out; four "celts," one showing marks of service in a handle; two 

 very diminutive "celts ;" a few fragments of what had been an ornament of sheet- 

 copper. 



At the very margin of the mound, in various directions, were small deposits of 

 sherds made up of parts of difterent vessels, while single sherds and smaller deposits 

 were met with throughout the mound. The ware, as shown by these fragments, is, 

 in most cases, inferior, though some is of excellent quality. Much is undecorated. 

 One sherd, seemingly, is cord-marked, though this decoration is hard to determine. 

 A few bear traces of crimson pigment ; many have the check-stamp of various sizes ; 

 several have the complicated stamp, including the design of concentric circles, so 

 much in vogue in this district. One has a complicated pattern shown by us in 

 Fig. 66, Part II, of our " Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Northwest Florida 

 Coast." Some sherds from this investigation bear incised decoration alone; some, 

 punctate decoration, in addition, but the specialty of the builders of the mound 

 was the punctate impression in various combinations. A selection of sherds from 

 the mound is shown in Fig. 66 and others are given in Figs. 67, 68, 69, 70. 





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Fi(i. iJT.— Slifid. Mound near Baypoit. (Three-fourths size.) 

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