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head S. E., too badly crushed for farther determination. With it was the base of a 

 cord-marked vessel of clay. 



Burial No. 38, 6 feet W. by N., at the start just beneath the surface and 

 slanting down to a depth of 1 foot 5 inches, was a confused mass of human bones 

 about 7 inches thick, 4 feet wide and tapering inward a distance of 2 feet 9 inches. 

 At one extremity of this deposit were a few fragments of calcined human bones, so 

 near the surface that probably the major portion had been scattered by cultivation. 

 With this deposit were : hematite ; a few shell beads ; two small, imperforate clay 

 bowls, the smaller inverted within the larger ; and a marine shell {Pecten nodosus) 

 in two fragments. 



In this mound, so far as investigated, though burials at length predominated, 

 we note a considerable diversity of forms, a contrast to a neighboring mound in the 

 Greenseed Field. 



The paucity of artifacts is notable. 



St. Catherine's Island, Liberty County. Mound in the Greenseed Field. 



This mound, in a field long under cultivation, about 1.5 miles in a southerly 

 direction from the main landing, was but little, if any, above the general level. A 

 few scattered oyster shells were lying upon the surface. In order to include any 

 possible pit or outlying burial, a circle with a diameter of 84 feet was dug through 

 which included considerably more than that part of the territory devoted to inter- 

 ments, the most remote of which proving to be 31 feet from the center. Evidence 

 of human handiwork was apparent at a considerably greater distance. As in the 

 case of certain other mounds, a black band, apparently a basal line, was present at 

 places, occasionally cut through by pits, and again following the line of excavation 

 down almost to the upper margin of the bones. 



In this mound, which extended some distance below the surface, were no grave- 

 pits let into undisturbed sand and, with two or three exceptions, separate graves in 

 the body of the mound were not determinable. 



The mound was composed of yellowish-brown sand with practically no shell 

 except in a central pit, roughly bowl-shaped, having a maximum diameter of about 

 9 feet. This shell deposit, beginning less than one foot below the surface, with a 

 thickness of about 18 inches, attained a depth of nearly two feet in the center of 

 the pit, measured from its upper surface to the surface of the mound. The thick- 

 ness of the deposit at this point was about 2.5 feet. Beneath this mass of shell was 

 Burial No. 28, which, with other interments, is shown on the diagram (Fig. 52). 



The usual outlying pits, in this case two in number, were present in this 

 mound. Both were filled with black loam and scattering oyster shells. One began 

 42 feet from the center, was 21 feet across and extended inward 18 feet. Its max- 

 imum depth was 3 feet 7 inches. The second pit began 47 feet out, was 23 feet 

 across and extended inward 15 feet. Its average depth coincided with that of the 

 other. As usual, no burials were present in them. 



In the sand of the mound were two arrow heads and a number of rude sherds. 



