482 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



Burial No. 26, remnants of a skull, had in direct association, about one-third 

 of a large pot. 



Burial No. 28, indications of a flexed burial, had a few shell beads. 



Bui-ial No. 39, the remains of a skull, had nearby: a polished "celt;" a dis- 

 coidal stone of quartzite, 3 inches in diameter on top, with sides slightly converging 

 toward the base, and a shallow jiit in the center of the upper part, rough in appear- 

 ance, possibly used for the cracking of nuts; a lance-head of chert, 4.5 inches in 

 length ; two arrow-points or knives, of the same material ; part of a lance-head, a 

 flake, two irregular bits, all of chert ; one smoothing pebble ; one pebble-hammer ; 

 one triangular gouge of shell, with unground edge ; two cutting implements wrought 

 from columellfe ; certain shells {Murex Jlavescens, Rangia cuneata, Dosinia discus). 



With several burials was more or less charcoal. In one place, where bones 

 probably had disappeared through decay, was sand tinged with hematite. Just 

 above the base, at the center of the mound, was a local layer of red clay, on part 

 of which lay a few scattered bones. 



Unassociated objects, except earthenware, Avere : several pebbles ; one arrow- 

 head or knife, of chert ; a thick sheet of mica, roughly rounded ; another with the 



Fig. 145. — Pebble-bammer. Mound uear Aspalaga. (Full size.) 



outline of a spear-point; several shell drinking-cups found with the pottery de- 

 posit ; a pebble-hammer of sedimentary rock, about 4 inches long, showing an encir- 

 cling band at the middle, consisting of the original surface, the remainder being 

 worked down and rounded as to the ends, one of which is somewhat chipped by 

 use (Fig. 145). 



In the eastern joart of the mound, under the slope, with a sherd deposit, were 

 a number of masses of lime-rock, each from 1 foot to 18 inches in diameter. Rock 

 of this sort is found along the northernmost parts of the Apalachicola river, near 

 which this mound was. 



At the extreme eastern margin of the mound, the advance guard of the pot- 

 tery deposit, was a number of sherds scattered here and there, some undecorated, 

 some bearing a complicated stamp, also several bases of vessels with four feet. 

 These sherds were followed by portions of vessels in fragments, and by vessels 

 from which considerable parts were missing. All these were of inferior ware and 

 decoration. 



