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The diameter of the summit plateau is 46 feet. Thorough trenching showed 

 the mound to have been a place of residence only. Isolated sherds lay here and 

 there in the sand of which the mound was composed, some of excellent quality, 

 undecorated, with the check-stamp, with the complicated stamp and with incised 

 decoration. 



Mounds near Rocky Bayou, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County, Fla. 

 On the west side of Rocky Bayou, about 1.5 miles up, in scrub, not far from 

 the water's edge, was a mound, circular in outline, 28 feet across the base and 2 

 feet 3 inches in height. A small trench had been dug through the central part. 



This mound, which was demolished by us, was of unstratified sand. Three 

 badly decayed skulls, each with some fragments of other bones, were met with and 

 a few small pieces of bone lying alone. 



About 8 inches below the surface, apparently unassociated, was a tobacco pipe 

 of soapstone, similar to those we have found in mounds near the mouth of the St. 

 John's river, Florida, where the orifice for the stem almost equals in size the bowl 

 of the pipe. In shape the pipe forms almost a right-angle with one side 4 inches 

 in length, the other side, 3 inches. 



With human remains, near together, were five small vessels of yellow ware, 



all perforate as to the base. Three 

 . are undecorated bowls, each of about 



i,;. one-half pint capacity. Another, 



j^ft^ semi-globular, 3.6 inches in maxi- 



Hf| mum diameter, has the rim turning 

 ■f inward to leave an aperture of about 

 HSf 1.7 inches. The height is about 2.4 

 inches. The fifth vessel has the 

 r form of a gourd. Its length is 4.6 



inches ; its height, 2.8 inches. The 

 Jayou. diameter of aperture is 1.4 inches 



(Fig. 47). The end of the stem has 

 a small irregular hole which seems to have come through decay. 



A graceful "celt," probably of igneous rock, with well-ground edge and rounded 

 end, 8.5 inches in length, lay near the surface. 



In various parts of the mound were several vessels, parts of vessels and sherds, 

 of no particular interest. 



About 100 yards east of the eastern side of the mouth of Rocky Bayou, in a 

 field formerly cultivated but now overgrown with scrub, is a mound of irregular 

 outline, with basal diameters of 72 feet and 112 feet. The height is 4 feet. Careful 

 trenching gave every indication' that the mound had been domiciliary in character. 



