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Some distance in from the margin, a second dark band began from 2 to 2.5 feet 

 above the base. This band, which contained bits of charcoal and debris, marked a 

 period of occupation, making it evident that the aborigines, after living for a while 

 on a low mound, had heightened it and used it for burial purposes. Few burials 

 were found below the upper band, and when they were met with, the band had 

 been cut through. Two good examples of the domiciliary mound heightened and 

 then used for burials have been described by us in preceding Reports ; namely, the 

 great Shields' Mound, near the mouth of the St. John's river, Florida, and the 

 mound at Matthew's Landing, Alabama river. 



In all, human remains were met with in forty-four places, counting only such 

 burials as were seemingly undisturbed by previous digging. 



Unless otherwise stated, burials were above the upper dark line in the mound. 



Burial No. 1. — Two femurs and part of a radius. 



Burial No. 2. — Two skulls with a conch-shell in association. These skulls, 

 like all others in this mound, were badly decayed and are spoken of as skulls 

 because enough of them remained to show that two crania, or the better part of two 

 crania, had been interred. 



Burials Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, consisted each of a single skull, unas- 

 sociated with other bones. With Burial No. 12 were two shell beads. 



Burial No. 6. — A lone skull covered by a circular dish inverted, unfortunately 

 badly crushed. This dish, without basal perforation, of rather coarse, black ware, 

 has incised decoration on the inner surface and a row of notches around the rim. 

 Its diameter is 15.75 inches; its depth, 4 inches. A former cracked portion had 

 been held together by cords or sinews running through perforations on either side 

 of the crack. Incidentally, it is of interest to note that this method of repair was 

 in use in Egypt probably 5000 years ago. 1 This dish has been sent to the Museum 

 at Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 



Burial No. 10. — Part of a femur, possibly a late disturbance. 



Burial No. 11. — A few decayed fragments of one or two long-bones with a chert 

 lancehead over 4 inches in length. 



Burial No. 13. — A grave or a late disturbance. A pit running from, or from 

 near, the surface, cutting through the upper dark band and extending almost to the 

 base of the mound. On the bottom was a bit of a skull and a humerus. 



Burial No. 14. — Fragments of decaying long-bones lying in sand unquestion- 

 ably undisturbed. 



Burial No. 15. — A bunch of badly decayed bones, principally long-bones, with- 

 out a skull. 



Burials Nos. 18, 26, ,27, 33, 44.— Each a skull with a few other bones. 



Burial No. 19. — A few bones without a skull. 



Burial No. 20. — Bones falling in caved sand. With them was a quadrilateral 



' "Naquada and Ballas," by W. M. Flinders Petrie, D. C. L., L. L. D., and J. E. Quibell, B. A., 

 London, 1896. 



