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In a swamp-field, the property of Mr. R. J. Madry, of Pye, Georgia,, to whom 

 Ave are indebted for permission to dig, about 2 miles in a southerly direction from 

 the swamp-landing, was a mound of sand. Its height was 2.5 feet; its diameter 

 of base, 36 feet. About one-half was dug through and the central portion dug out. 

 A circular implement of rough sandstone, pitted on either side, was loose in the 

 sand ; also a few sherds. Human remains, all near the center, were at three points 

 as follows : an unburnt bunched burial ; a deposit, 4 feet down, of calcined and 

 unburnt bones, the unburnt and the calcined bones at first separate, then mingled ; 

 a pocket of calcined fragments with a streak of sand, colored with hematite at 

 one side. 



About 150 yards north-northwest from the preceding was a mound 2 feet 4 

 inches high with a basal diameter of 31 feet. It was practically dug through by us. 

 Almost in the center, about 3 feet down, was a bunched burial. 



Nearly contiguous was a mound 1 foot 8 inches high and 26 feet across. It 

 was dug into without result. About one-half mile in a northwesterly direction from 

 the last mound was a mound 14 inches high and 30 feet across the base. It was 

 practically dug through, yielding one bunched burial almost in the center. 



In an old field about 1.5 miles west by north from the swamp landing near 

 Mitchell's lake was a mound 2 feet in height and 32 feet in diameter of base. The 

 mound, which had been cultivated, was opened with the kind permission of Mr. M. 

 A. Coleman, of Pye, Georgia. The mound which was of unstratified sand, like all the 

 Altamaha mounds, was practically demolished by us. Human remains, all bunched 

 burials, were encountered at six points, some out toward the margin. With an 

 adult skull was a shell disc .8 of an inch in diameter, doubly perforated. With 

 fragments of a child's skull were a shell pin 2.8 inches in length and shell gorget, 

 roughly circular, 4.4 inches in diameter (Fig. 17). This gorget originally had on 

 the concave side an engraved decoration now indistinguishable as to character 

 through weathering and also — curiously enough — because numbers of irregularly- 

 shaped holes had been cut through the gorget. 



Mounds near Beard's Bluff, Liberty County (2). 



About one and one-half miles in a northwesterly direction from the landing, 

 on the property of Mrs. Jack Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., who kindly permitted us to 

 investigate, was a mound 3 feet high and 56 feet across the base. A considerable 

 hole had been previously dug into the center. Our investigation showed the mound 

 probably to be of a domiciliary character. 



About one-half mile in a straight line from the preceding mound, in a northerly 

 direction, across a small stream, the boundary of Tattnall county, in thick " scrub," 

 also the property of Mrs. Jones, was a mound surrounded by hollows from which 

 material for its construction had been taken. Its diameter of base was 36 feet. Its 

 height, owing to neighboring depressions, was difficult to determine. Two and one- 

 half feet would probably represent its average altitude. A small trench had been 

 dug through the center previous to our visit. Considerably more than one-half the 



