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mound have now been laid bare, while the remaining portion has been dug into to a 

 depth of 7 feet. Subsequently, the mound was restored, that so great and historical 

 a land mark should not pass from sight. The results of the last investigation were 

 mainly cumulative, for though a goodly tribute was levied in objects of stone, 

 copper, and earthenware, no new feature of importance was added to the results of 

 the preceding season. 



During the second investigation, our experience as to the locality of objects 

 was repeated, since on the base their occurrence was comparatively infrequent, 

 while between the base and the upper seven feet of the mound almost nothing was 

 met with, the superficial seven feet containing nearly the entire collection made by 

 us, though all classes of objects, whether of copper, of earthenware, or of stone, 

 were represented on or near the base. 



In connection with Mt. Royal, it must be borne in mind that the shape of the 

 mound gives evidence of a much greater height in former times, and the plough in 

 recent years has contributed its share to the diminution of the altitude. Nothing, 

 then, found in Mt. Royal may be considered as of other than original deposit. 



HUMAN REMAINS. 



Human remains, as before, were found in the last stage of decay, and, with 

 the exception of a few teeth, were not preserved. 



STONE. 



Spade-shaped Implement. — Six feet from the surface in the S. E. slope of the 

 mound, at a point about four feet from the base, lay an adult human skull in the 

 last stage of decay, and apparently unassociated with the remainder of the skeleton. 

 A few inches distant lay a beautifully polished hatchet of stone, a spade-shaped 

 implement of stone, a tubular bead of sheet copper and an ornament of the same 

 material. With the copper, and dyed a bright green by contact with it, were a 

 number of deciduous molars and incisors plainly having no connection with the 

 adjacent cranium which, moreover, had its dental complement. 



The implement, a modification of the type known as spade-shaped, was six 

 inches in length and, unlike the two found by us in Mt. Royal the preceding season, 

 did not have the handle tapering to a blunt point, while the nicks, or tally marks, 

 were wanting (Fig. 1). 



This type of implement, though found so far north as Ohio, is of more frequent 

 occurrence in the Southern States. Its discovery in Florida, so far as reported, has 

 been confined to Mt. Roj'al. 



Polished hatchets. — During the investigation seventy polished hatchets and 

 chisels — " celts" so called — were taken from the mound, which, with the sixty-seven 

 found by us the previous year, make a total yield exceeding that from any one 

 mound of which we have knowledge. 



18 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. X. 



