94 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



resemble sawdust, Two bits, larger than the rest, belonged to a child of tender 

 years. No fire had been used in connection with these remains, and the reader 

 will bear in mind that when cremation had been employed, the fact will be distinctly 

 stated. This vessel, lacking certain portions, was sent to the Davenport Academy 

 of Natural Science, Davenport, Iowa. 



Sa was capped by a bowl of black ware (Sb) undecorated, save for an encircling 

 row of projections somewhat below the margin (Plate XI). It was practically 

 intact. Approximate measurements : maximum diameter, 13.75 inches; diameter 

 of aperture, 12.75 inches; height, 6.25 inches. From the upturned base of this 

 bowl to the surface of the mound was a distance of 2 feet 2 inches. 



Burial No. 12, Vessel T, 28 feet N. E., 1 foot 5 inches from surface, a vessel 

 of the usual type, almost intact. In the sand at the bottom were minute fragments 

 of bone with two deciduous teeth and the cap of another. A small hole had been 

 knocked through the base. Approximate measurements: height, 18.5 inches; 

 maximum diameter of body, 13.5 inches; diameter at aperture, 16 inches. 



Burial No. 13, beginning 14 feet E., just below the surface was a layer of 

 calcined human remains, at first 22 inches wide, gradually increasing to 5 feet. 

 Its thickness, 2 inches at first, was 6 inches at its terminal limit, It extended in 

 toward the center of the mound, a distance of 4.5 feet, where it was 2 feet below 

 the surface. With the fragmentary bones were found two shell pins and one small 

 bead of shell. 



Vessel U, 12 feet E., portions of a vessel of black ware, 3 feet from the surface. 

 Its only decoration was a row of knobs around and below the margin. 



Vessel Va, 13 feet E., a vessel of the common type, was intact save for two 

 small pieces missing from the rim. In the base was a small perforation, above which 

 was the bottom of a pot tightly fitted in. Upper portions of this pot, which was 

 incomplete, lay within it. Va was capped by large sherds seemingly belonging to 

 one vessel, perhaps placed there in a less fragmentary condition and subsequently 

 crushed by weight of sand. No human remains were found in Va, though there 

 can be but little doubt as to their former presence. 



Burial No. 14, in a grave, 3 feet from the surface, 3.5 feet in length, dipping 1 

 foot into the yellow sand, almost in contact with the vessel Va, which, however, 

 was not within the limits of the grave, was the skeleton of a person about 

 eighteen years of age, with epiphyses of femurs and tibiae unattached and one 

 wisdom tooth showing. The skeleton lay on the right side, the legs flexed^ head S. 

 The cranium (A. N. S. Cat. No. 2,165) was preserved in good condition. Above this 

 grave the layer of oyster shells on the surface was intact. 



Burial No. 15, 20 feet N. E., a bunched burial of the bones of a child about 6 

 years of age, 2 feet from the surface. 



Burial No. 16, 12 feet N., a layer of calcined fragments of human bones, 16 

 inches from the surface. Its maximum thickness was 2 inches ; its length, 2.5 feet; 

 its breadth, 2 feet. 



Burial No. 17, Vessel Wa, 14 feet N. by E., 1 foot 6 inches from the surface, 



