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Vessel C, 36 feet S. E., a layer of fragments of earthenware vessels, 22 inches 

 by 3 feet 8 inches, 18 inches below the surface. It was made up of overlapping 

 sherds of large size, at times single, and again double, and not of several vessels 

 placed on their sides and crushed by the weight of sand, since cord-marked pottery 

 lay with that having the complicated stamp, and when a fragment was imposed 

 upon another, it often occurred that the convex portion of an upper sherd fitted into 

 the concave portion of a lower, which could not be the case were two sides of a 

 previously entire vessel brought into apposition through breakage. No remains or 

 artifacts lay in the neighborhood of this layer. 



Vessel D, 33 feet S. E., the lower portion of a vessel of the ordinary type, with 

 perforated base, having the rim and upper part of the body crushed into small 

 fragments. The vessel had been let down somewhat into the undisturbed yellow 

 sand. From base of vessel to surface, 3 feet. 



Burial No. 4, 33 feet S. W., portions of a skeleton with unattached epiphyses, 

 partly in anatomical order, 3 feet 9 inches from the surface, below a local shell 

 layer. A considerable portion of this skeleton was missing, presumably through 

 a later burial (No. 11) placed below it, which was, however, aboriginal and con- 

 temporary with the mound, as shown by the undisturbed shell layer above. A 

 diseased humerus from this burial was sent to the Army Medical Museum, Wash- 

 ington. With the bones was a mass of red pigment, which chemical tests showed 

 to be an iron paint ore, probably hematite, and not cinnabar, which would have 

 indicated European contact. 



XXX. — A layer of oyster shells having its S. E. corner over Burial No. 4. In 

 thickness it varied from 10 inches to 7 inches to 4 inches. Its outer margin was 

 8 feet 10 inches across. It extended into the mound a distance of 6 feet 8 inches, 

 where it had a terminal breadth of 5 feet. The upper surface of this layer was 1 

 foot 10 inches from the surface of the mound. 



Burial No. 5, a grave 33 feet W. of S. W. This grave, 3 feet from the surface 

 to the base, 26 inches in diameter, ran 9 inches into the clear yellow sand on which 

 the skeleton lay. The burial was that of an adult female, head E., on left side 

 and so flexed that its major diameter was but 25 inches. Decay was noted in 

 several of the molars, a condition not infrequent in this mound. 



Burial No. 6, Vessel E, 31 feet S. S. E., a vessel of the usual type, inverted. 

 The body and base so badly fractured that it was impossible to arrive at any con- 

 clusion as to a perforation in the base. Within the vessel were a few fragments of 

 the bones of a child, including two phalanges of the toe, unaffected by fire. In 

 addition, were some calcined shells and a fragment of a calcined shell with a central 

 perforation. This vessel had been placed in a pit, the base of which, 3 feet 4 inches 

 from the surface, was 8 inches below the line of the clear yellow sand, and was 3 

 feet 6 inches across at the point of entrance into the yellow sand. 



XXXX. — 29 feet S. E., a layer of decayed or fire-blackened wood, 1 foot in thick- 

 ness, 3 feet 9 inches across, extending inward about 3 feet where it had a breadth 

 of about 1 foot. It lay at the bottom of a pit filled with brownish sand. No human 

 remains or artifacts were in association. 



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