CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OP THE GEORGIA COAST. Ill 



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Several sherds were singly or doubly grooved, showing- 

 use as hones. 



One fragment of earthenware from a large vessel had a 

 thickness of .9 of 1 inch. 



An imperforate vessel of about 1 quart capacity with a 

 rough checked-stamp decoration came from caved sand. 



In caved sand was an undecorated vessel in shape some- 

 what like a modern gravy-boat. The bottom had been inten- 

 tionally knocked out. Length, 7.3 inches; width, 4.7 inches; 

 height, 3 inches. 



A globular, undecorated vessel lay in caved sand. Diam- 

 eter at mouth, 4.3 inches; maximum diameter, 5.5 inches; 

 height, 4.3 inches. 



Two bowls, one badly crushed, were in caved sand. 



Throughout the mound were several deposits of fragments 

 of pots, placed upon each other. As usual, these nests were 

 composed of pieces belonging to different vessels. 



A number of pebble-hammers and fragments of pebble- 

 hammers were found separately in midden refuse and unasso- 

 ciated with human remains. 



From the basal layer came a silicified astragalus of a large 

 mammal, which had seemingly been in use as a hammer as 

 portions from one end were split off, as by blows. 



Mostly from the midden refuse came numerous fragments 

 of bone pins, while at a considerable depth in the sand was 

 found an ulna of a lower animal, fashioned into a highly 

 polished piercing implement 7.8 inches in length (Fig. 62). 



In the surface loam was a section of a long bone .7 of 1 

 inch in height, with diameters of .6 of 1 inch and .8 of 1 inch 

 respectively. On either side, between the upper and lower 

 margins is a groove. The bone is polished, and at one place 

 slightly stained with copper. This object may be of a period 

 later than that of the mound. 



Apparently not in immediate association with remains, to- 

 gether, were ten agricultural implements of shell {Fulgiir carted) . 



Though human remains in Mound C were, as a rule, 

 fairly well preserved, no unbroken crania were met with. No 

 evidence of disease was present on the bones and but one 

 fracture was found, that of an ulna which had united with 

 much less deformity than has been the case with some fractures 

 we have met with. Though careful notes of all burials were 

 taken, yet, owing to similarity of form to interments in Mound 

 B, we deem it unnecessary to go into detail. 



