372 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF THE FLORIDA WEST-COAST. 



our service by Mr. Samuel Pettit, the owner. In the mangroves, about one-half 

 mile from the landing, are a number of low, irregular undulations, which seem to 

 have served as places of burial for the aboriginal settlement. Considerable previous 

 digging had been attempted. An imperfect examination indicated that parts of 

 disjointed skeletons had been buried just below a shell deposit, and subsequently 

 about one foot of loam had been piled above. 



Fig. 10.— Disc and "sinkers" of limestone. Goodlaud Point. (Full s 



With a femur, a tibia, fragments of a fibula, parts of a radius, were four arrow- 

 heads, or knives, of chert. 



One small mound had twelve shell drinking cups just beneath the surface. 

 Though the mound was less than half demolished by us, over twenty of these cups 

 were met with. 



From the sons of Mr. Pettit we got a considerable collection of objects found 

 during cultivation of the place, including several beautiful shell pendants ; many 



