CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 475 



Fourteen burials were met with bj us, the majority deep in the mound, one 

 being 5 feet 4 inches from the surface. Tliese burials lay throughout the mound, 

 and were characterized by the paucity of bones constituting a burial, the upper half 

 of a skeleton being the largest interment met with. Ten burials consisted of single 

 skulls or skulls associated with a few minor bones. Other burials were : the upper 

 half of a skeleton ; part of a thigh bone ; two skulls with a tibia and a femur ; a 

 femur and a tibia. 



Burials Nos. 1 and 2, a skull with cervical vertebra^ and clavicle, and the upper 

 half of a body, respectively, each had neatly rounded shell beads of moderate size, 

 at the neck. These were the only artifacts present with burials. Unassociated, 4 

 feet down, was a small, waterworn boulder about 8 inches long by 9 inches wide, 

 shaped somewhat like a " celt," which, possibly, had seen service as a maul. A 

 sheet of mica, rudely given the shape of a spearpoint, fell in caved sand. 



Almost due east, besrinnino; 

 about 3 feet from the martcin of 

 the mound, a point probably 

 markino; the original marsin, 

 was the usual deposit of earth- 

 enware, which continued in to 

 the center, extending but little 

 to either side. The deposit be- 

 gan with a considerable number 

 of sherds and fragments of large 

 vessels, also complete vessels in 

 fragments, nearly all bearing 

 the small check-stamp. Farther 

 in, this decoration was entirely 

 supplanted by other varieties. 

 Here and there, throughout the 

 earthenware deposit, were shell 

 drinking-cups in fragments. 



Seventeen vessels were no- 

 ted by us as complete or nearly 

 so, with the exception of the 

 basal perforation. Man}- of the 

 vessels, broken and scattered 

 throughout the mound, a cus- 

 tom which was widely practised 

 along the northwest Florida 

 coast, have not been included 

 in our list. These vessels, how- 

 ever, presented no feature of 



Fig. 137.— Vessel No. 1. Mouud at Bristol, (.\bout three-fifths size.) particular interest. 



