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Mound near Jolly Bay, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County, Fla. 



Jolly bay is at the eastern end of Choctawhatchee bay. Landing at the head 

 of Jolly bay, on the north side, and keeping about one mile inland in an N. N. W. 

 direction, a mound is reached in pine woods on the verge of hammock land near a 

 fine stream of water. The mound, on property of Mr. R. L. Burnham, resident on 

 the place, was investigated by kind permission of the owner. The mound had been 

 dug into more extensively than any of its size it has been our fortune to see and, 

 as usual, vain search for treasure was the motive of the wreck. Little beyond the 

 sloping portion of the mound and part of the eastern end remained intact. Fortu- 

 nately for us, deposits of earthenware in mounds in this section of the country are 

 often marginal, so that we believe little, if any, pottery was destroyed by previous 

 digging. We were informed by Mr. Burnham that he had been present when others 

 were seeking for gold, and had witnessed the finding of but one pot since the dig- 

 ging began, twenty years ago. 



The height of the mound as we found it, was 3 feet 9 inches ; its diameter east 

 and west was 70 feet and 55 feet north and south. Its summit plateau was 51 feet 

 by 38 feet. 



All undisturbed parts of the mound which was composed of unstratified sand, 

 were dug through by us. 



Twenty-seven undisturbed burials were met with. These were lone skulls; 

 skulls with a few fragments of long-bones, and, occasionally, long-bones without the 

 skull, all badly decayed. 



With one skull was a lancepoint 5 inches in length. Another skull had eight 

 arrowpoints or knives, five of quartzite, three of jasper. 



With a burial was a piercing implement made from the column of a Fulgur. 



A small chisel of undetermined rock, a broken "celt" and several arrowpoints, 

 one of blue quartz, lay loose in the sand. 



On the southern side of the mound, beginning at the general level, dark sand 

 extended below the surface, continuing into the slope for a considerable distance. 

 In this sand were several vessels, and burials also were present in it. 



In all, fourteen vessels were met with, all but one or two in the sloping portion 

 of the mound, and none much farther in than the margin of the summit plateau. 



We give in detail a description of the vessels. 



Vessel No. 1. — A little below the surface, almost at the beginning of the 

 upward slope, with no bones in association, lay an interesting dish of yellow ware, 

 five pointed, with basal perforation. The decoration, which is incised and punctate, 

 is evidently symbolical. Maximum diameter, 7.5 inches; depth, 2.3 inches (Fig. 51). 



Vessel No. 2. — 2 feet 10 inches down, inverted over the skull of an infant, with 

 other bones near by in a condition resembling sawdust, was a bowl with incised 

 decoration much the same as that on Vessel No. 20 (Fig. 23) from the Walton's 

 Camp mound. Maximum diameter, 8.8 inches; depth, 4 inches. The base is 

 imperforate. On the sides of the bowl is much soot indicating use for domestic 

 purposes. 



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