66 



CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



Length. Measiirements are given in mm. 







Projection on shaft. 



Oblique position. 



Great Troch. to Ext. Cond 





Sex. 



Head. 



G. T. 



Head. 

 442 



G. T. 



Male . 





450 



436 



419 



427 



Tiisle (Superficial). 

 Index. 





Total. 



15 

 2 

 1 



Average Index. 



63 



592 



64-9 



Minimum 

 Index. 



Maximum 

 Index. 



Oscillation Exponent. 



Male 

 Female 

 Uncertain . 



55-1 

 53-7 



77-1 

 64-9 



51 



With the original burials lay bits of pottery of good material, some showing 

 traces of a red pigment. With the exception of a lance head of chert 5 inches in 

 length (Fig. 35) nothing of interest was found with the remains other than super- 

 ficially. 



if -.^■Hl 



Fig. 35. Lance head of chert (full size). 



Eighteen inches from the surface in the northern slope of the mound was found 

 the point of an implement of bone, recalling the entire implement met with at Tick 

 Island. Unfortunately, this one was too fragmentary for identification. 



Superficially, with a skeleton in close association, was an axe of iron (Fig. 36), 

 and a polished "celt" 3 - 25 inches in length. It has been thought by some writers 

 that inasmuch as no allusion to these implements of stone can be found in the early 

 Spanish chronicles, and as the " celt " escaped the vigilance of the Huguenot writers 

 and the pencil of Le Moyne, the supply in Florida had disappeared by inhumation 

 prior to the coming of the whites. The finding of a " celt " associated with iron 

 leads us to a different conclusion. 



Axes of iron of the type discovered in the Thursby mound are- of wide distri- 

 bution. They are reported from California, 1 from New York, 2 and we read that no 



1 U. S. Geographical Surveys west of 100th Meridian, Vol. VII, page 275. 



2 Aborig. Mon. of State of New York, E. G. Squier, page 78, fig. 21. 



