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of about 1 foot, was composed of oyster-shells, with a certain admixture of sand. 

 Well in toward the center, sand alone lay above this layer, but whether or not the 

 layer of sand was due to later cultivation of the mound, we could not determine. 



Burials began almost at the margin, nine of human remains and two of dogs. 



Burial No. 1, 20 feet N. E. by N. from the center, 2 feet 10 inches down, in a 

 pit 3.5 feet deep, was the skeleton of a female, the trunk on the back, partly flexed, 

 with knees to the left. The skull with all cervical vertebras but one was missing. 

 There had been no late disturbance. The head, if present, would have pointed E. 

 S. E. There was a well-united fracture of the left radius. 



Burial No. 2, 19 feet N. N. E., female, flexed on the right side, head E. S. E., 

 in a grave-pit 3 feet deep, the body slanting upward, 2 feet 4 inches down. 



Burial No. 3, a dog, in a small grave of its own, under unbroken layers. The 

 skull and principal bones were sent to Professor Putnam, Peabody Museum, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Burial No. 4, a young dog. The cranium was sent to Professor Putnam. The 

 remaining bones were badly decayed. In this mound we notice the custom which 

 prevailed in certain mounds of the Georgia coast, namely : according the honor of 

 sepulture to their canine friends by the aborigines. 



Burial No. 5, 17 feet W. N. W., 3 feet down on the margin of a pit 3 feet 8 

 inches deep, was a skull with two cervical vertebras. At the same level, but farther 

 into the pit, were several scattered long bones. The skull, sex not determined, has 

 an apical bone and double parietal foramina. It was sent to the Army Medical 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Burial No. 6, 16 feet N. N. E., in a pit 4 feet 3 inches down, was the skeleton 

 of a young male, flexed on the right, head E. 



Burial No. 7, in the same pit about 1 foot farther out from the center of the 

 mound, on a level just below Burial No. 6, was the skeleton of a child, flexed on the 

 right side, heading E. N. E. The pit containing these two burials was 6 feet 5 

 inches in depth. 



Burial No. 8, 15 feet W. N. W., just below the black base layer, 3 feet 

 down, was the skeleton of an adult of uncertain sex, flexed on the left side, 

 head N. E. by N. 



Burial No. 9, 13 feet N. E. by E., on the base, 2 feet 4 inches down, was the 

 skeleton of a male with trunk on back and knees flexed to the right, head S. S. E. 



Burial No. 10, 12 feet N. N. E., on the bottom of a pit extending through the 

 base layer, 3.5 feet down, were a tibia, a fibula and the foot bones with scattered 

 bones of the other foot, all under an unbroken layer of oyster-shells. 



Burial No. 11, 8 feet N. W. by W., 2 feet down, under a mass of small 

 marine univalves (Lzttorina irroratd) was the skeleton of a female, partly flexed on 

 the right side, head N. E. by E. 



No artifacts lay with the burials. Near the surface, unassociated, was a 

 disc of earthenware, evidently fashioned from a fragment of a broken earthenware 

 vessel whose cord-marked decoration was apparent on the disc. These discs, if 



