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in the brown sand and just beneath the layer of oyster shells, was a gourd-shaped, 

 undecorated vessel of black ware, intact save for a small crack on the side. This 

 vessel was filled almost to the top with fragments of calcined human bones some of 

 which at least had belonged to adults, and, in common with all we have encountered 

 containing calcined bones, was imperforate as to the base. Approximate measure- 

 ments : height, 8.5 inches ; maximum diameter, 10 inches ; diameter of orifice, 5 

 inches. 



Superimposed upon the orifice of Wa, inverted, was a small vessel (Wb), with 

 everted rim somewhat broken, though capable of almost complete restoration. 



Burial No. 18, Vessel X, immediately behind Wa, 15 inches from the surface 

 was a vessel of the ordinary type in use for infant inhumation, imperforate, filled to 

 the top with calcined fragments of human bones. Approximate measurements : 

 height, 15 inches; diameter of body, 11 inches; diameter of aperture, 13 inches. 

 This vessel was sent to the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Twenty feet E. of N. E., the brown sand of the mound made a dip into the 

 undisturbed yellow sand to a depth of 21 inches. From the level of the yellow 

 sand to the surface of the mound was 27 inches, so that the bottom of this excava- 

 tion, which was beneath an unbroken layer of oyster shells on the surface, was 4 

 feet deep. At the very base of the excavation were several good-sized fragments 

 of earthenware but no human remains or anything to suggest a reason for its 

 construction. 



Burial No. 19, Vessel Y, 17 feet N. by E., 14 inches from the surface was an 

 imperforate vessel of the usual form with stamped ornamentation on the body but- 

 having the constricted portion and the rim undecorated. This vessel, which was 

 filled with fragments of calcined human bones, was crushed to pieces though held 

 in place by sand. It was pieced together with the exception of a few small bits. 

 Approximate measurements : diameter of orifice, 9 inches ; of neck, 7 inches ; of 

 body, 8 inches ; height, 9.5 inches. 



Burial No. 20, 13 feet E. N. E., a pocket of fragments of calcined human bones, 



5 feet 9 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, from 2 to 5 inches in thickness. With the 



remains at several points were large pieces of earthenware representing perhaps a 



fourth of a vessel. They were distinctly not fragments of an entire vessel crushed 



. through pressure. 



Burial No. 21, Vessel Za, 16 feet N. E., an imperforate vessel of the common 

 type having a height of about 1 foot, with rim and portions of the body crushed 

 but lying beside it. It was filled with fragments of calcined human bones. Across 

 the opening were large fragments of a portion of another vessel. Za was sent to 

 the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, where it has been almost entirely pieced together. 



Burial No. 22. Together, practically in contact, were four cinerary vases each 

 filled to the top with fragments of charred and calcined human bones, with which 

 were numerous shell beads showing no trace of fire, placed in an excavation made in 

 the yellow sand (CC), and filled around with brown sand (BB) to the level of the 

 rims, or rather to where the rims had been previous to breakage, and covered from 



