36 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



feet in circumference. The mound is of a brown loamy sand filled 

 with palmetto roots. Upon it is a small frame house. A trench, 10 - 5 

 feet by 7 feet, along the base on the east side showed no stratification. 

 Human remains in a bad state of preservation were met with. 

 Two feet below the surface was a small pendent ornament of hard trap 

 grooved for suspension (Fig. 18). The presence of the dwelling pre- 

 vented satisfactory investigation. 



Sand Mound Near Duval's, Lake County. 



F ent OTnament" Directly opposite the point of union of Hitchen's Creek with the 

 (full size). St. John's, Blue Creek joins the river. This name is given to a water- 

 way which, making a detour, joins the main stream about three miles farther south, 

 forming an island of what otherwise would be a portion of the main land. On the 

 right hand side of Blue Creek, going south, about half way up, is a shell deposit 

 some two acres in extent. The spot is uninhabited, but is reported to belong to 

 a person named Duval. Following a path running north through the clearing and 

 turning west into the pine woods, one comes upon a sand mound about 200 yards 

 distant from the creek. The mound is now virtually demolished. Its height was 

 5*5 feet, its circumference 165 feet. It was thickly covered with scrub oak and 

 scrub palmetto whose roots, permeating the mound, made satisfactory investigation 

 difficult. 



COMPOSITION OP THE MOUND. 



About one foot beneath the surface of the mound, which was otherwise com- 

 posed of the Avhite sand of the surrounding territory, ran a layer of pinkish sand, 

 having a maximum thickness of 18 inches. At places, especially in the neighbor- 

 hood of any deposit of pottery or of implements, the sand had been given a brick- 

 red hue. 



Chemical analysis showed the coloring matter to be pulverized hematite. 

 This tingeing of the sand, it will be remembered, was noticed at the Dunn's Creek 

 mound and at Mt. Royal. We shall refer to it again in the case of a mound 

 shortly to be described. 



About 15 feet from the southern margin of the base and three feet below the 

 surface was a small local deposit of Pethidines. Otherwise the mound was devoid 

 of shell. 



HUMAN REMAINS. 



Burials were all original, lying under the unbroken stratum of pink sand. 

 They were mainly on or below the base and were all of disconnected bones, crania 

 greatly preponderating. Occasionally one or two long bones lay together, but no 

 ribs nor any of the smaller bones were apparent, save occasional cervical vertebrae 



