490 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



had been dug into superficially in the center, in addition to which a hole about 2.5 

 feet square had been sunk to the base. The mound, sand with a certain admixture 

 of clay and gravel, had a height of 4.5 feet; a basal diameter of 45 feet. It was 

 totally dug down by us, with the exception of parts left around two trees. 



Human remains were encountered forty-seven times, the bones being- badly 

 decayed, enough only remaining to indicate the form of burial. Several calvaria, 

 recovered uncrushed, gave no evidence of artificial flattening. 



The burials, found in all parts of the mound, from the margin in, were as fol- 

 lows as to form : scattered bones, 1 ; lone skulls, 13 ; bunched burials, 11 ; flexed 

 skeletons, 22. Of the flexed skeletons, none of which was met with until the dig- 

 ging approached the body of the mound, all were flexed on one side or on the 

 other, except one which lay on the back with the knees raised. Three flexed 

 burials lay under masses of lime-rock. One lone skull was in dark sand, with 

 charcoal nearby. 



FiG. 156.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Sampson's Landing. (Five-sixths size.) 



There were in the mound, in addition to several, pebbles^ two " celts " which 

 lay separately, unassociated, and seemed to have been put in in a general way. 

 Near certain earthenware were mica and part of a shell drinking-cup. 



Soon after the digging began a few scattered sherds were found, plain, with 

 the small check-stamp, and with a complicated stamp. Later, part of a pot with a 

 complicated stamp, and with a hole knocked through the base, came from the south- 

 western part of the mound, and a large fragment with rude, incised decoration and 

 basal perforation lay near the southern margin. 



When the digging had progressed a number of feet into the eastern side of the 



