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Mound near Graveyard Point, East Bay, Santa Rosa County, Fla. 



The locality takes its name from a modern graveyard adjoining a small church. 

 The church, which faces the water, is in full sight of the mound, which has been 

 under cultivation and seems greatly extended by it. The mound is roughly circu- 

 lar in outline. Its present diameter is about 75 feet; its height, 2.5 feet. Careful 

 trenching convinced us that the mound was domiciliary in character. 



Two and one-half miles in a westerly direction from the mound at Graveyard 

 Point we dug through, without result, a small mound in woods, where treasure 

 seekers had left a considerable excavation. 



Other small mounds located during a careful search of bays around Pensacola 

 had been too badly cut to pieces by seekers after treasure to invite investigation. 



Mounds near Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa County, Fla. (2). 



About twelve miles from the western extremity of Santa Rosa sound, northern 

 side, on ground formerly cultivated, and in full view of the water, were undergrowth 

 removed, are two mounds but a few yards apart, surrounded by a considerable shell 

 deposit. Each has been much spread by the plough. 



The larger mound, circular in outline, has a base diameter of 81 feet. The 

 summit plateau is 52 feet across. The height of the mound is 3.5 feet. To the 

 northwest is an excavation 80 feet across and 5 feet 9 inches deep in the center, 

 whence sand was taken for the building of the mound. Careful trenching indicated 

 the mound to be domiciliary in character. 



The smaller mound, 26 feet across the base and 2 feet 9 inches high, had been 

 built after the thin shell deposit which covered the field was made, since this deposit 

 extended beneath the mound. Above this shell was from 1 to 1.5 feet of sand in 

 which were numbers of burials. Such as were met with by us in digging part of 

 the mound lay flexed on the right side or showed disturbance, probably aboriginal. 

 There were no artifacts with the remains, and such sherds as were met with had 

 evidently been gathered with the material for the mound. These sherds showed 

 variously the check-stamp, the complicated stamp, incised decoration and crimson 

 paint. 



Mounds at Walton's Camp, Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa County, Fla. 



Walton's Camp, which got its name during the Civil War, is near the eastern 

 extremity of Santa Rosa sound, northern side, on property belonging to Mr. J. T. 

 Brooks, resident on the place. 



At the water's edge is a shell-heap of considerable size. About 150 yards in a 

 N. E. by N. direction, across a cultivated field, on the edge of woods, is a mound 

 roughly oblong with rounded corners, having a major diameter of base of 223 feet 

 east and west, parallel to the sound. The minor base-diameter is 178 feet. The 

 summit plateau is 179 feet by 135 feet. 



56 JOUEN. A. N. S. PHTLA., VOL. XI. 



