28 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



diameter. Within it were a certain number of calcined fragments of human bones. 

 In contact with D was a bowl (E) in fragments. It bore the checked stamp decor- 

 ation, and apparently contained no human remains, though immediately behind it 

 was a small pocket of calcined fragments. 



Burial No. 21. Ten feet S. E., skeletal remains disturbed by the plough. Below 

 the chin were several large shell beads in line and a number of small ones. 



Soi 

 fields 1 



Creighton Island, McIntosh County. — North End. 

 Creighton Island, bounded on the north by the Sapelo river, a branch of Sapelo 

 d, has on the northern portion, on such parts as were examined by us, great 



under cultivation. Scattered through these fields are numerous shell- 







Margin 0/ mound. 



Mara in o\ excavation. 



Marginal burcals. 



Scale £.£*._ 



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Fig. 14.— Diagram of 



at north end of Creighton Island. 



heaps not greatly above the general level. Abundant sherds with incised decoration 

 and with complicated stamp are scattered over the surface in every direction. All 

 this interesting territory was cordially placed at our disposition by George E. 

 Attwood, Esq., of Shell Bluff, near Crescent, Georgia, the owner, whose mound at 

 Shell Bluff has already been described by us. 



About one mile S. E. by E. from the landing was a mound, or rather an irreg- 

 ular ridge, extending about N. W. and S. E. a distance of 116 feet. Its maximum 

 width at base was 100 feet approximately. Scattered oyster shells lay over the 



