shell. Mound 

 near Woodbine. 

 (Full size.) 



CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE CxEORGIA COAST. 13 



of earthenware found by us in the Thursby Mound, Volusia County. 1 These 

 may have served as ear-plugs since we know it to have been an aboriginal custom 

 to wear articles of considerable size thrust through the lobe of the ear. 



About 3 feet from the surface, lying near the cranium of a skeleton, were 

 beads of shell, some of considerable size ; several stopper-shaped objects of shell ; 

 an imperforate drinking cup wrought from Fulgur perversum ; 

 and an undecorated gorget of shell, 3.75 inches by 4.5 inches, 

 with double perforation for suspension. Almost immediately above 

 these remains and relics was an intrusive burial of recent times, 

 having fragments of clothing and buttons. 



Other stopper-shaped objects were found associated with a 

 finger-ring of copper, to which reference will be made later. 



About 3 feet from the surface was a nest of oyster shells and 

 charcoal. 



COPPEE. 



Associated with human remains, 1.5 feet from the surface, was 

 an ornament of sheet copper almost oblong in shape. The margin 

 was beaded, 2 as is so commonly the case with similar ornaments in Florida, and a 

 central concavo-convex boss had its origin in a great number of semi-perforations 

 placed closely together with the aid of some pointed implement. The sheet copper 

 is decidedly thicker than that met with in Florida, more resembling sheet copper 

 we have seen from Ohio. Not far from the center of the margin of the smaller end 

 is a perforation for suspension. Length, 3 inches; maximum breadth, 2.75 inches ; 

 minimum breadth, 2.25 inches. 



About 1.5 feet from the surface, 2 feet from a skeleton lying 

 at the same level, was a circular ornament of sheet copper, 3 inches 

 in diameter. The usual concavo-convex boss at the center is present, 

 as likewise is the beaded margin. There is one perforation for 

 attachment or suspension. 



In the northern " slope of the mound, about 2 feet from the 

 surface, with a skeleton, were shell beads, several stopper-shaped 

 objects of shell and, in place on a finger bone, a finger-ring wrought Flg of 8 '^ Fl t ng ^ 

 from a band of thin sheet copper (Fig. 8). 



Prehistoric finger-rings are of extreme rarity in this country 

 In the cemetery at Madisonville, Ohio, where are the famous ash-pits, Professor 

 Putnam found on the fingers of one skeleton four rings made from bands of sheet 

 copper, and speaks of such rings as " unique in American archaeology." 3 Professor 

 Putnam does not recall the discovery of similar rings from the date of publication 

 of his report to the present time. 



i "Certain Sand Mounds of the St. Johns River, Florida," Part I, Fig. 100. 



2 The same beaded margin, so frequently seen on ornaments of sheet copper in Florida, is repre- 

 sented as present on a sheet silver disc from Peru. " Necropolis of Ancon," Reiss and Stiibell, Berlin. 

 Part VIII, Plate LXXXI, Fig. 19. 



3 XVI and XVII Annual Reports, Peabody Museum, p. 166. 



copper. 

 Mound near Wond- 

 (Fullsize.) 



2 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XI. 



