438 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS OF THE N. W. FLORIDA COAST. 



tion of burials was so difficult, for, in addition to the great amount of later disturb- 

 ance, aboriginal burials were so spread that it was difficult to say where one burial 

 ended and another began. According to our account, kept with the strictest atten- 

 tion, 66 burials were met with, none, we believe, over 3 feet in depth. Such of 

 these as were accompanied by vessels of earthenware will be described, particularly, 

 later. Other burials were some at full length, some bunched. In addition, there 

 were solitary skulls and fragmentary parts of the skeleton. Cremation was absent. 

 Few artifacts, save earthenware, were met with, either loose in the sand or 

 with the dead. There were : pebble-hammers ; three large,, flat hones of fine- 

 grained ferruginous sandstone ; shell beads with a number of burials ; two shell 

 hair-pins ; three discoidal stones, one of granitoid rock ; two rude cutting imple- 

 ments of quartzite ; two hatchets, one, 9 inches long, of indurated slate; a flat 



chisel of the same material, 7 inches 

 long ; a bead of bone, 2 inches in length ; 

 several masses of red oxide of iron, hol- 

 lowed out by use as paint ; a bead of red 

 jasper, 1 inch in length ; many arrow and 

 spear points, some loose in the sand, 

 others with interments. In addition, 

 was a lancehead 3.6 inches in length 

 and 2.6 inches broad, of most unusual 

 form, being heart-shaped as to outline. 

 Mr. Rand is unable to identify the rock 

 of which this lancepoint was made, with- 

 out mutilating the specimen. Upon the 

 material is a deposit which at first was 

 supposed to be calcareous, but which 

 failed to react with acid (Fig. 14). This 

 interesting specimen lay with two arrow- 

 points near an adult skull. 



The earthenware in the mound at 

 Walton's Camp was its especial feature. 

 Forty-nine vessels, more or less com- 

 plete, were taken out by us in addition 

 to some small ones badly broken, which, showing no feature of particular interest, 

 and not in association with burials, will not be described by us. 



Many vessels among those taken out, we regret to say, were broken by our 

 men since, lying superficially beneath masses of roots, they were, of necessity, 

 exposed to blows from spades or axes. Many more were found crushed to pieces 

 by roots or by weight of sand, aided, no doubt, by the effect of frost. 



In the mound, with whole vessels, were great numbers of fragments in undis- 

 turbed sand. Sometimes parts of vessels had been interred, and often parts, broken 

 to pieces, lay in a little pile. Again, numbers of fragments were heaped together. 



