CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 15 



A few sherds, some plain and some ornamented with the usual diamond or 

 ' square stamp, lay loose in the sand, as did three arrow-heads of chert, found 

 separately. Well in toward the center was an irregular mass of oyster shells, 

 about 6 feet from the surface. 



The result of our examination of this mound surprised us greatly, since it 

 strongly resembled the rich little mound at Woodbine a few miles below. 



Two Moulds South of Brunswick, Glynn County. 



At South Brunswick, opposite the town of Brunswick, about 200 yards in a 

 southerly direction from the railroad wharf, was a mound 2 feet high and 26 feet 

 across the base. It bore no marks of previous investigation. A total demolition 

 of the mound was without result. 



About 1.5 miles inland from Fancy Bluff, an abandoned plantation on a creek 

 a short distance from South Brunswick, was a mound 2 feet 3 inches in height, and 

 28 feet across the base. This mound was investigated so far as a large tree upon 

 its northern portion permitted. No discoveries of any sort were made. 



Mounds in Lawton's Field, Darien, McIntosh County. 



The town of Darien, on a branch of the Altamaha river, is about 10 miles 

 distant from the sea in a straight line. 



In the northern outskirt of the town is a large field, the property of Mr. P. C 

 Lawton, an intelligent colored man, who readily placed at our disposal three mounds 

 included within the limits of his field. 



Mound A. This mound, which had been plowed over for years, had, according 

 to report, lost considerably in height which, at the time of its total demolition by 

 us, was 4 feet 6 inches. Its diameter at base was 46 feet. 



Previous investigation was limited to a narrow superficial trench through a 

 portion of the mound. 



The mound was composed of yellowish sand with local layers of oyster shells, 

 calcined in one instance, and of sand, brownish in color, probably through presence 

 of foreign material. A layer of brownish sand, about 1 foot in thickness, seemed to 

 mark the lower portion of the mound, as immediately below it was bright yellow 

 sand, undisturbed, and containing no object of artificial origin. At the center, 

 from this bright yellow sand to the highest portion of the mound, vertically, was 

 6 feet. 



A number of fragmentary and disconnected human bones were found in the 

 neighborhood of the trench, left by previous investigators. Undisturbed human 

 remains, which were almost entirely confined to the eastern side of the mound, 

 were eleven in number. The form of burial was that in anatomical order. The 

 skeletons were considerably flexed. Nearly, if not, all had been, to all appearance, 

 wrapped in bark much of which, though badly decayed, still remained. 



