148 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS, COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



From Charleston to Georgetown the inland route runs largely through marsh, 

 and it is possible at but few places to effect a landing on solid ground. Pilots and 

 persons familiar with the route were entirely ignorant of the presence of mounds in 

 the neighborhood of the water. As this agreed so well with our own experience 

 of the neighboring portion of the coast investigated by us, we determined to abandon 

 the remainder of the inland route, and to devote our attention to a more promising 

 field. 



Mounds Investigated. 

 Near Bluffton. Little Island (2). 



Callawassie Island. Near Button Hill (4). 



Hasell Point (2). Indian Hill, St. Helena Island. 



Guerard Point. Polleewahnee Island. 



Indian Hill. 



Mound neak Bluffton, Beaufort County. 



In a cultivated field belonging to the Cresson plantation, about 2.5 miles north 

 of Bluffton, is a mound long under cultivation, having a height at the time of 

 investigation of 3 feet 3 inches, a diameter of base of 58 feet. It was investigated 

 by us by permission of Mrs. A. E. Coe, of Bluffton, under whose control it is. It 

 had previously been dug into to a limited extent. The southern half was dug 

 through by us and part of the central portion of the remainder. It was composed 

 of dark yellow sand with no admixture of shell. No pits nor outlying graves were 

 met with. A few chips of chert and scattered sherds, none with complicated deco- 

 ration, were found. Almost at the center were fragments of a child's skull and 

 two small deposits of calcined and unburnt bones together. 



Mound on Callawassie Island, Beaufort County. 



This mound, in the pine woods near the northeastern end of Callawassie island, 

 was investigated by us with the kind permission of Mr. William Pinckney, the 

 lessee of the island. The mound, lying near a number of small deposits of oyster- 

 shells, had a flattened appearance, presumably from previous cultivation ; a part of 

 the center had previously been dug out. The mound is 3 feet 4 inches in height 

 and 48 feet across the base. The northern half was dug through by us, including 

 considerable adjacent level territory, this last being done in a fruitless search for 

 outlying pits or graves, which are so numerous near some mounds of the Georgia 

 coast. 



The mound consisted of dark sand containing a certain amount of clay. Scat- 

 tered oyster-shells were present throughout. Along the base of the mound, at the 

 level of the adjacent territory, was an irregular layer 8 to 12 inches thick, of 

 crushed oyster-shells and fire-blackened sand. Beginning about 13 feet from the 

 center, this layer increased somewhat in thickness, toward the center, and the oyster- 

 shells lay loosely and unbroken. The superficial portion of the mound, to a depth 



