96 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



the tops up with oyster shells (AA), which dipped to the upper margin of the vessels 

 as shown in Fig. 54. These vessels are represented by the following : 



Vessel AA (Plate XII), of red ware, imperforate, with upright neck and 

 slightly flaring rim. The usual complicated stamped decoration is present. This 



vessel has been pieced together 



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tion, with several portions want- 

 ing. Approximate measure- 

 ments : height, 16 inches; 

 maximum diameter, 14 inches; 

 diameter of mouth, 10.5 inches. 

 Over its mouth was part of 

 the bottom of an earthenware 

 vessel. 



Fig. 54.— Deposit of cinerary urns. Mound A. (Xot on scale.) Vessel BBa, of the USUal 



model, though of black ware, 

 was capped with a dish of red ware (BBb). Both, though held in place, were in 

 fragments. 



Vessel CC was a large undecorated bowl of earthenware holding within it, in 

 an upright position, a vessel (DD) of the usual type, covered as to its orifice with 

 pieces of earthenware. Both vessels, though held in place, were very badly crushed. 



Vessel EE, a vessel of the usual type, its mouth covered with fragments of 

 earthenware. The rim was badly crushed and portions of it were not recovered. 

 This vessel was sent to the Ontario Archaeological Museum, Toronto, Ontario. 



Under perfectly level ground, adjacent to the mound and beginning at that 

 portion of the margin included between N. E. and S. W. h W., were outlying burials 

 as shown in diagram Fig. 55. The ground seemed to have suffered a general disturb- 

 ance at the period of the inhumations and individual pits were difficult to determine 

 though several were unquestionably met with. 



Vessel FF, 27 feet S., a vessel of the ordinary type, upright, its base 31 inches 

 below the surface. It was badly crushed. Though no trace of human remains 

 was present it had doubtless contained the skeleton of a very young infant. The 

 fragments were sent to the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



Burial No. 23, Vessel GG, 27 feet S. S. E., a vessel of the ordinary type, 

 imperforate, with the entire upper portion crushed away. Minute fragments of 

 bone were present. 



Burial No. 24, 28 feet S. by W., 30 inches from surface, 1 extending somewhat 

 into undisturbed sand, was the skeleton of a child three to five years of age, flexed 

 on the right side, head S. 



Vessel HH, 33 feet E. by N., an imperforate, undecorated vessel, globular as 

 to its body, with constricted neck and flaring rim, apparently unassociated and intact 



1 Depths of vessels and of skeletons in the outlying part of Mound A, were taken from the 

 under margins. 



