10 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Low Mound at Fairview, Camden County. 



Fairview, the property of Captain W. F. Bailey, to whom we are indebted for 

 courteous permission to investigate, lies on the bank of Marianna Creek which 

 empties into Kings Bay, Cumberland Sound. 



The mound, in a cultivated field, had a diameter of base of 38 feet, a height 

 of 2 feet 8 inches, though a large stump remaining on the mound gave evidence of 

 a loss of about 1 foot additional height through the agency of the plow." 



The mound was completely demolished. 



The closest examination of the structure of this mound seemed to indicate that 

 the usual pit, made previous to the erection of the mound, was wanting, and that the 

 mound, composed of loamy brown sand and unstratified, had been erected upon the 

 undisturbed level ground. 



There were no marginal burials. In addition to fragmentary bones, thrown up 

 by the plow, human remains were met with at seven points. 



One and one-half feet from the surface and 10 feet from the northwestern 

 margin of the mound was the flexed skeleton of a child, in anatomical order. 



An adult skeleton, showing the same form of burial, lay 2 feet from the surface. 



One foot down was a deposit of fragments of calcined human bones beneath a 

 local layer of oyster shells. With the remains lay a sheet copper ornament with 

 repousse decoration. 



A burial, well in toward the center, had seemingly its full quota of bones, and 

 the lower portion of the skeleton lay in anatomical order. The cranium, however, 

 was upside down ; the mandible lay on its side, embracing one bone of the forearm 

 and two ribs. In all probability ligaments held together a part of this skeleton at 

 the time of its removal to the mound. Reference has already been made to the 

 custom formerly obtaining with many of the southern Indians, namely, the exposure 

 of the body for a certain time previous to interment. Juan Ortiz, a member of a 

 former expedition, rescued by De Soto, had been accorded by his captors the task 

 of keeping carnivorous wild animals from remains thus exposed. 



About 2.5 feet down, just above a thin layer of calcined oyster shells extending 

 several feet beyond, were the bones of a young infant. With them were many shell 

 beads of various sizes. 



At another point lay a deposit of calcined bits of bone, some certainly human, 

 all probably so. 



Almost in the center of the mound were parts of a skeleton, considerably 

 scattered. A small hole apparently had been dug previously at this point, causing 

 a disarrangement of the bones.. 



Sherds were limited in number, about one dozen being met with, the majority 

 plain though several bore a complicated stamped decoration. 



With the exception of two or three bits of chert the mound yielded nothing 

 farther of interest. 



