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seem that an entire vessel had been broken and' its parts scattered on the sand dur- 

 ing the construction of the mound. 



Fig. 61— Handle of vessel. Mound near Jolly Bay. (Half size.) 



Loose in the sand were three handles of vessels ; two representing human 

 heads (Figs. 59, 60), and one the head of a fish, neatly executed (Fig. 61.) 



Mounds near Black Creek, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County, Fla. (3). 



These mounds lay in sight of each other in an old field about 2.5 miles up 

 Black Creek and one mile inland in a southwesterly direction from Mr. David 

 Evans' lower landing. 



The mounds had all been under cultivation, and evidently all had been greatly 

 spread by the plough. The smallest was less than one foot in height. The others 

 were 70 feet and 96 feet in diameter and 1.5 feet and 4 feet in height, respectively. 

 All these mounds were carefully trenched with no result, save to indicate their 

 former use as places of domicile. 



Mound near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Washington 

 County, Fla. 



This mound was about two miles in a westerly direction from Point Washing- 

 ton, near a spring of excellent water. The spring feeds a pond from which a nar- 

 row creek, navigable for small boats, runs to the bay, somewhat over a mile distant. 

 The mound, on the property of Mr. Simeon Strickland, Sr., of Point Washington, 

 who kindly permitted us to dig, was of circular outline, 36 feet across the base and 

 6 feet high. Previous diggers, treasure seekers, we were told, had made a large 

 hole in the center, probably 8 feet in diameter, and had driven a trench in from 

 the margin. 



The mound, of yellow sand without stratification, was demolished by us. 



Burials were central to a certain extent, the first being met with 8 feet in from 

 the margin. In all eleven were met with by us at depths varying from 2 feet to 

 the base of the mound, and doubtless a considerable number was destroyed by the 

 hunters for gold. The form of burial was the solitary skull, sometimes accompanied 

 by a few fragments of other bones or, occasionally, long-bones without the skull 



