CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 17 



In this pen, with the bones, were four small bits of chert, one showing a cer- 

 tain amount of workmanship ; one small cube of quartz and a small mass of clayey* 

 material. 



With another skeleton in a somewhat similar coop, though less well preserved, 

 was a small polished chisel of stone and a diminutive pebble. 



Though, as stated, a great majority of the skeletons were buried with wood or 

 bark, there were certain notable exceptions. One burial in the eastern margin, 3.5 

 feet from the surface, showed no trace of woody material. The cranium of this 

 skeleton was preserved in good condition (A. N. S. Cat. No. 2,159). 



Considerably below the level of the surrounding territory, beneath the extreme 

 western margin of the mound, were two graves, distinguished by the dip of the 

 artificially colored brown sand constituting the lowest stratum of the mound, into 

 the undisturbed yellow sand of the field. Neither grave showed any trace of wood 

 or bark. 



Fig. 9. — Burial pen. Mounds in Lawton's Field, Mound B. (About one-eighth 



Grave No. 1 contained a skeleton 5 feet 3 inches from the surface of the mound 

 and 2 feet 3 inches below the bottom of the basal layer of brown sand which at 

 this point extended two feet below the level of the surrounding territory. The 

 mound at this point had a height of 1 foot. No artifact lay with the skeletal 

 remains though, in close association, was the right humerus of an adult bald-eagle 2 

 {Halicsetus leucocephalns). The bone was in a subfossilized condition. The bones 

 of both forearms of this skeleton were anchylosed at the upper extremity in a posi- 

 tion of pronation. They were sent to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. 

 No anchylosis was noted at other points of the skeleton. The cranium, in fairly 

 good condition, was preserved (A. N. S. Cat. No. 2,160). In this skeleton the bones 

 of one hand were missing while the axis rested against the sacrum and a first rib 

 and atlas lay above the pelvis. The lower jaw was back of, and turned from, the 



1 In the cut the feet are incorrectly represented as upright, their true position having been nearly 

 parallel to the logs. 



2 Kindly determined by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 



