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



Mr. Walker says of this mound, " The surface about tlie base was thickly 

 strewn with fragments of pottery; in fact it seemed that the whole foundation of 

 the mound was covered with broken pottery previously to the interment of any of 

 the bodies." 



There were a number of sherds in the mound, here and there, at various 

 depths, but we saw nothing to bear out Mr. Walker's statement on the subject. 

 These sherds, the only artifacts in the mound, except the drinking-cups, were of 

 inferior ware and rudely decorated, when at all. The check-stamp was present in 

 several instances, but the prevailing form of decoration was incised and punctate. 

 A few loop-handles were found. A selection of sherds from this mound is shown 

 in Fig. 88. 



In this mound were several large fragments of shell-tempered ware, belonging 

 to one vessel, the first we recall having met with in peninsular Florida, if we except 

 two handsomely made bird-head handles from the Island of Marco, which had been 

 worn as pendants, and were, doubtless, importations. Even on the Florida main- 

 land shell-tempered ware is rarely met with until the district bordering Alabama is 

 reached. 



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Fig. 89.— Plan. Mound on Long Key. 



Mound on Long Key, Hillsboro County. 



Long Key lies between the Gulf and Boca Ceiga bay, having Blind Pass on 

 the north and Passe a Grille on the south. 



About midway from the extremities of the island, a strip of land makes into 

 the bay in a SE. direction. About one-half mile from the end of this strip, in thick 

 growth, is the mound, to which only good luck or a guide can lead one. 



The mound is described by Mr. S. T. Walker {op. cit., pg. 403, et. seq.) who 

 also gives a plan of it, and ascribes to it the form of a turtle. In Fig. 89 we give 



