18 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



cranium and, moreover, gave every evidence of not belonging to the skull. The 

 teeth of the lower jaw showed considerably more wear than those of the upper jaw. 

 In the upper jaw one wisdom tooth showed little sign of wear, while the other had 

 been but recently lost. On the other hand, there had been a loss of both wisdom 

 teeth of the lower jaw with absorption of the alveolar process. Moreover, the teeth 

 of the jaws do not seem to coincide. It is seen that these signs of disturbance can 

 be accounted for only under the hypothesis of exposure of the body previous to 

 interment — a very common practice in some sections — and that the parts not in 

 anatomical order had fallen from the skeleton which otherwise was held together 

 by ligaments. The lower jaw, probably lost or mixed, was intentionally or other- 

 wise, substituted by another. 



About 8 feet due south from grave No. 1, 4.2-5 feet from the surface of the 

 mound, and about 3 feet below the level of the surrounding territory, was grave No. 

 2, 3.5 feet long, by 33 inches wide, by 1 foot deep. The skull was saved in good 

 condition (A. N. S. Cat. No. 2,155). The tibise and fibulas showed inflammatory 

 swelling. With the cranium were three shell pins of familiar type. 



EARTHENWARE. 



Sherds were not numerous, a few undecorated or with variously stamped pat- 

 terns being met with. 



Two and one-half feet below the surface of the southern margin, with human 



Fig. 10. 

 Tobacco pipes of earthen w 



Fig. 11. 

 l Lawton's Field, Mound B. (Full si 



remains was an inverted imperforate vessel with flaring rim and encircling band o± 

 complicated decoration. The ware is of excellent quality. Height, 4.75 inches; 

 diameter of rim, 4.2.5 inches; of body, 5 inches (Plate I, Fig. 1). 



Two undecorated vessels of poor material, of about 3 pints and 1 pint 

 capacity respectively, lay together about 2 feet distant from a skeleton on the same 

 level. The smaller vessel, irregularly oblong, unfortunately received a blow from 

 a spade. The larger, a bowl of ordinary pattern, was broken by pressure of sand. 

 Both have been completely restored. 



