474 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. " 



Fifteen trenches dug in from beyond the apparent margin indicated the advisa- 

 bility of joining these trenches to include an area of 50 feet in diameter E. and W. 

 and 46 feet N. and S. This portion of the mound was completely demolished by 

 us, with the exception of certain parts around three trees of considerable size. 



Almost at the western margin of the mound, in a pit below the base, were a 

 fragment of a cannon bone of a deer and an earthenware smoking-pipe of ordinary 

 shape. With these were three gouges wrought from the body whorl of Fulgur. 

 No human remains lay with these relics, though, no doubt, a burial had been there. 

 In the entire mound human remains were found but once and were represented by 

 a fragment of cranium, which lay with a bit of deer bone in what seemed to be the 

 run-way of a small rodent. 



Unassociated in the mound were : a rude arrowhead or knife, of chert ; one 

 pebble ; a pitted stone about 6 inches square. 



Almost at the outset, several sherds having the small check-stamp were met 

 with in the SE. part of the mound. Soon after, three vessels were found, and about 

 3 feet farther south, on line with the others, twenty-one vessels were grouped 

 together. Near these, a little farther in, were four additional vessels. After these, 

 still continuing toward the center, the area of deposit, widening by a few feet, 

 yielded eighteen vessels, singly and in pairs, until the central part of the mound 

 was reached, making forty-six in all. With these was one shell drinking-cup. 

 There were no masses of sherds such as are usually found in ceremonial deposits of 

 this sort. 



Never has it been our fortune to open a mound whei'e a number of vessels pre- 

 sented so low an average of excellence. The ware was of the poorest quality. In 

 form, the vessels, mostly pots, offered not a single departure from ordinary varie- 

 ties. Incised decoration was unrepresented, the sole ornamentation being notches 

 and scallops, and faint and carelessly-applied complicated stamps on three or four 

 vessels and on one sherd. Not a vessel was recovered whole, though the sand was 

 comparatively dry and almost free from roots, where the vessels were. Some were 

 crushed through inferiority of ware, others had been put into the mound with por- 

 tions missing. All, where determination was possible, showed the basal perforation 

 made after baking. 



Mound at Bristol, Apalachicola River, Liberty County. 



This mound, in woods, about 300 yards in a NW. direction from the town of 

 Bristol, on property of Mr. J. E. Roberts, of that place, was on the slope of a ridge 

 of sand. The mound rose about 2.5 feet above the level of the ridge and extend- 

 ing down the slope, gained several additional feet in depth. The mound, which was 

 of sand and circular in outline, had a basal diameter of 56 feet. A trench, 10 feet 

 across, dug prior to our visit, extended from the NE. margin 30 feet into the mound. 

 Trenches beginning in the level ground were dug into the mound from all sides a 

 distance of 3 feet, when, it having become apparent that the original mound had 

 been reached, the trenches were joined and the remainder of the mound, with a 

 diameter of 50 feet, was entirely dug down. 



