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



Fig. 85.— Vessel No. 



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Vessel No. 17. — An imperforate bowl of black ware found, badly crushed, 

 inverted over a human skull with a fragment of clavicle and some vertebrae 

 With these was a chisel of iron or of steel. This bowl, put together with the 

 exception of a small part of the rim, which is wanting, has an incised decoration 

 shown in Fig. 86. Maximum diameter, 15.5 inches ; depth, 6.4 inches. 



Vessel No. 18.— A bowl, badly crushed, found turned over the skull of an 

 adult, about 2 feet from Vessels Nos. 16 and 17. This bowl, 3 feet 6 inches down, 

 lay at a considerably greater depth than the vessels ordinarily. The decoration, 

 incised, is a form of the partially interlocked scroll. The fragments of this bowl 

 were sent to the Davenport Academy of Natural Science, Davenport, Iowa. 



Vessel No. 19. — A bowl found upright in one of the deposits of sherds. The 

 base is perforate. The decoration is incised scroll and punctate, much like that of 

 Vessel No. 24 (Fig. 24) from the mound at Walton's Camp. Maximum diameter, 

 9.5 inches ; depth, 4.5 inches. 



Vessel No. 20. — A bowl with perforate base, lying just beneath the surface 



