26 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



About nine inches down, with sand colored with hematite, which was presen. 

 with certain other burials in the mound, were a few small bits of chert ; several 

 small shell beads and parts of two copper discs each about 2.3 inches in diameter 

 and having three concavo-convex concentric circles by way of ornamentation. On 

 one side of each was the usual wood or bark. 



Reference has been made to a black band of sand running through the mound. 

 This layer .75 of one foot in thickness, was, at the center of the mound, 4 feet 

 from the summit, or 1 foot 3 inches beneath the surrounding level. In close prox- 

 imity to one of the pockets of human bone& which we have noted as lying in this 

 blackened sand, was an imperforate vessel of very thick and heavy ware ; length, 

 8 inches, maximum width, 3.1 inches, height, 1.8 inches, consisting of three com- 

 partments joined longitudinally very much in the same style as the vessel figured 

 by us as coming from the Monroe Mound * in Florida. Vessels of this character 

 are supposed by some to have been used for paint, the separate compartments 

 holding different colors. 



A sheet of mica about 3 by 2 inches was found in caved sand. 



A few sherds, possibly half a dozen, were scattered throughout the mound. 



An irregularly shaped mound about 5 feet in height, mainly composed of shells, 

 on the property of a colored man named King, was dug into without result. 



Mound at Shell Bluff, McIntosh County. 



Shell Bluff on Shell Bluff creek, approximately three miles by land and six 

 miles by water, from Crescent, is the property of George E. Attwood, Esq., who 

 kindly placed at our disposition a mound in a cultivated field near his residence. 



This mound, reduced by years of ploughing, scarcely rose above the general 

 level. It was distinguished by the paucity of oyster shells upon its surface, which 

 lay more thickly on certain other portions of the field. It being impossible to arrive 

 at any conclusion as to the exact area containing burials, a semicircle was taken 

 with radii of 46 feet converging at a point seemingly the most prominent of the 

 slight elevation. This semi-circle, including what we took to be the eastern half 

 of the mound, was carefully dug through. The remaining portion of the mound 

 apparently had not been used for interments beyond a few feet from the cross-section 

 and after 26 feet of it had been dug through, without material result, the work 

 was abandoned. 



The mound was composed of yellowish-brown sand with the usual layer of 

 surface loam above. There was no marked base line nor any stratum of oyster 

 shells in the mound, though several pits containing burials, extending into undis- 

 turbed sand, were filled with them. 



This mound, Mr. Attwood informed us, had been dug into by him at one spot, 

 the result being a discovery of three vessels of earthenware filled with charred and 



1 Certain Sand Mounds of Duval County, Florida, Plate LXXIII, Fig. 2, Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., Vol. X. 



