74 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Mounds at Laurel View, Liberty County. 



Laurel View is a high bluff on the south side of the Medway river. About 

 1 mile south of the bluff* was a very symmetrical mound of white sand, 7 feet high 

 and 38 feet across the base. It was on the property of Mr. McClosky of Augusta, 

 Georgia. Prior to our visit a large trench had been dug completely through the 

 mound and a portion of one side had been dug away. The remainder of the mound 

 was totally demolished by us. A number of pockets of calcined human bones — 



Fig. 49.— Diagram of mound near South-end Settlement. 



about twenty — some associated with pink sand, were met with, also several solitary 

 skulls very badly decayed. 



A chert arrowhead lay loose in the sand and another was found un associated 

 with a cranium. A piercing implement of bone, of the ordinary type, lay with 

 calcined remains. 



About 100 yards northwest of the mound just described was a small one, intact 

 as to previous investigation but much reduced in height by the plow. Its altitude 



