362 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF THE FLORIDA WEST-COAST. 



Near the shore of Sarasota Bay, on property of Mr. J. H. Gillespie, of Sara- 

 sota, are three low sand mounds, much dug into previous to our visit, in which we 

 found practically nothing. 



Near Snell's Bayou, Manatee Co., in sight of the water, is a mound on property 

 of Mrs. F. E. Brooks, of Birmingham, Michigan, whose winter home is near the 

 mound. The mound, of brown sand, is 109 feet across the base and 10 feet in 

 height. A central trench was without result. 



About one-half mile in a southerly direction from Sarasota, Manatee Co., a few 

 yards from the water, in oak and palmetto scrub, is a mound on the property of Mr. 

 Adolph Zakezewski, of Philadelphia, Pa. The mound is 20 feet high with some- 

 what irregular basal outline ; and about 130 feet across. Considerable digging done 

 previous to our visit showed no trace of human remains along the sections, nor were 

 our excavations more successful. The mound, which is probably of a domiciliary 

 character, seems to be of gray sand without shell. 



Mound on Pine Island, Lee County. 



Southward from Charlotte Harbor is Pine Island Sound in which is Pine 

 Island. About three miles down, on the eastern side of the island, is a small key 

 supposed to be about three acres in extent. This island rises in places to a con- 

 siderable height owing to an aboriginal deposit of shells, whence its name, — Indian 

 Old Field. 



About three-quarters of a mile in a W. N. W. direction from Indian Old Field, 

 on Pine Island, is a mound a trifle over 5 feet in height and 60 feet across the base. 

 It is situate away from the mainland proper, on what is known as a sandspit, — 

 territory not usually covered by tides but subject to overflow during unusually high 

 ones. It seems curious for aborigines to have chosen such a spot for a. place of 

 interment when solid ground in abundance was so near at hand. 



The mound, on property of the late J. H. Kreamer, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa,, 

 was but partly investigated by us. A trench, 28 feet across at the beginning, was 

 started at the northeast side of the mound where wash of tides had carried away a 

 portion, leaving an abrupt section. The trench, converging to 24 feet at the end, 

 was carried in a distance of 20 feet. The mound, unstratified, was of gray sand. 

 At the base and below, where were a number of burials, the sand was black from 

 admixture of loam. At the beginning of the excavation were numbers of frag- 

 ments of pottery, belonging to different vessels, placed thickly together. Nearby 

 were several shell drinking cups and a number of conch-shells. 



Interments met with at thirty-eight points, consisted of burials loosely flexed 

 and others closely drawn together like those we have described from the mound on 

 Little Manatee river. There were also several masses of disconnected bones and 

 skeletons disturbed by burials made afterward, though probably by the same tribe. 



With the burials were three "celts" of iron or steel; glass beads, on three 

 occasions ; two tubular sheet silver beads with overlapping edges ; one kite-shaped 

 pendant of thin sheet silver, decorated with a repousse cross (Fig. 5) ; a handsome 



