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calcined fragments of human bones and covered with other vessels inverted. Owing 

 to this previous investigation and the obvious reduction in height of the mound, a 

 detailed description of the contents will not be given. 



Sherds were not numerous and none with the complicated stamp was met with. 

 Loose in the sand was a large pebble-hammer of circular outline. 



The mound, not greatly above the water level, was unusually moist ; and 

 human remains, which were encountered 31 times, were, as a rule, when not cal- 

 cined, in very poor condition. The usual diversity of form of burial was present, 

 including that in anatomical order, the bunched burial, inhumation of parts of 

 skeletons, pockets of calcined remains and cremated fragments in cinerary urns. 

 We append certain burials seemingly worthy of record, including all associated 

 with any artifacts. 



Burial No. 8. Nineteen feet east of the point taken as the center, and about 1 

 foot 9 inches below the surface, was a layer of charcoal and charred wood about 

 3 inches thick. It was 4.5 feet across and extended in 28 inches. Above a portion 

 of it was a thin layer of oyster shells. Beneath the center of the layer of charcoal, 

 which was entirely unbroken, were the two bones of a forearm of a child, showing 

 no signs of fire. With them was an imporforate drinking cup of shell, so carefully 

 ground exteriorly that all prominent parts had been removed. 



Burial No. 12 A. A comparatively small vessel of about two gallons capacity 

 with a checked stamp decoration, crushed into small fragments. It had contained 

 many pieces of calcined human bones. The record of its exact position was over- 

 looked. 



Burial No. 14. Sixteen feet E. by N., on the base of a pit containing numerous 

 oyster shells, 16 inches from the surface, was the skeleton of a male flexed on the 

 right side, heading S. by W. The cranium, an exception to the almost universal 

 rule in this mound, was well preserved and showed a marked artificial flattening of 

 the frontal bone. It was sent to the Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Burial No. 16. Twenty-one feet N. E. by N., 2 feet down, was a partially 

 flexed skeleton of a male on the right side, heading N. W. by W. With it were 

 two pebble-hammers, one, of quartz, about 3.5 inches in length, shows considerable 

 use on one end as a hammer, while the other had been roughly chipped to a cutting 

 edge, a feature new in our mound investigation. 



Burial No. 20, B. C. D. E. Fourteen feet E. by N., on the same level, their 

 bases 2 feet 9 inches from the surface, in line, were three vessels. The one to the left 

 (C), imperforate, undecorated, somewhat resembling a bell-jar in shape, was almost 

 intact, and contained to within 6 inches from the surface, a mass of fragments of 

 calcined human bones (Plate II). This vessel, which had a diameter at mouth of 

 about 8 inches, a maximum diameter of 10.5 inches and a height of 10.5 inches 

 approximately, was completely covered by an undecorated jar (B), which fell into 

 small fragments upon removal. In contact with C was a gracefully shaped vessel 

 (D), imperforate, undecorated and entirely intact (Plate III). Approximately, it 

 measured 7.5 inches in height, 7.5 inches across the mouth, and 9.5 inches maximum 



