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28. A bunched burial 2 feet from the surface, a short distance from 27. With 

 it was a vessel almost the exact counterpart of the one just described, save that the 

 decoration, though on the same lines, is much more elaborate, considerably exceed- 

 ing in pretension anything met with by us in Florida or elsewhere in Georgia. 

 This decoration is shown diagrammatically in Plate XVI. Certain portions of this 

 vessel, lying with it, were recovered, and were successfully fitted into place. 



29. Another grave, 26 inches in depth from the surface. It was filled with 

 oyster shells and contained the skeleton of a male l}"ing on the right side, the right 

 arm under the head. 



30. Beneath the roots of a good sized tree, their tops 8 inches beneath the 

 surface, together in a group, all upright, were five cinerary urns each filled almost 

 to the top with a closely packed mass of charred and calcined fragments of human 

 bones. With these bones were a few shell beads showing no trace of fire. The 

 tops of the vessels were covered with large fragments of earthenware belonging to 

 other vessels, which had prevented any entrance of sand. These vessels were of 

 poor material, some especially so, being of slight consistency and held together only 

 by the surrounding roots of the tree above them. Three of the vessels, when the 

 matted mass of roots was removed, fell into pieces so small in size that all 

 hope of restoration was abandoned. The remaining two, though broken into many 

 pieces, were successfully restored. The larger of these two vessels has a height of 

 about 15 inches, a maximum diameter of 15.5 inches and a diameter of aperture of 

 13.5 inches, approximately. It is ornamented beneath the rim with deep lines 

 incised before baking (Plate Y). 



The smaller vessel has a globular body with a neck rising from a depression. 

 The ornamentation is of a complicated stamp variety. Approximate measurements : 

 height, 15 inches; maximum diameter, 14.5 inches; diameter of aperture, 6.25 

 inches (Plate YI). In immediate association with these cinerary urns were eight 

 imperforate drinking cups of shell. 



31. Fourteen inches down, in caved sand were the bones of a male. 



32. Sixteen inches from the surface, with sand tinged with hematite, was a 

 bunched burial of numerous bones, surmounted by a mass of oyster shells. A 

 large number of shell beads were in association. 



33. This interesting grave occupied an almost central position in the mound. 

 Its shape was that of an inverted truncated cone supposing the truncated end to be 

 slightly rounded. The top of the grave, forming a portion of the summit plateau, 

 had a diameter of 8 feet ; the depth of the grave, vertically from the surface to the 

 bottom, was 5 feet 9 inches. This grave, after completion, had been lined with a 

 layer of oyster shells about 6 inches in thickness. The bones, present in consider- 

 able numbers, had apparently been poured in from the northern side and distributed 

 in a fairly even layer over the bottom and up the northern side to within 2 feet of 

 the top (Fig. 32). On the eastern and western sides were occasional loose bones, 

 but none was present on the southern side, except immediately on the base (Fig. 33). 

 The horizontal distance from the southern margin of the bones on the bottom of the 



