174 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



MOUNDS SOUTH OF PALATKA. NOT INCLUDED IN PART I. 



Near Brown's Landing, Putnam County. 



In thick undergrowth, about one-half mile from the river, and about five miles 

 south of Palatka, is a mound of yellowish sand without stratification. Its height 

 is 6 feet, its base diameter 47 feet. It had undergone considerable previous inves- 

 tigation. About three-quarters of the mound were demolished by us with entirely 

 negative results. 



Four Mounds Near St. John's Landing, Putnam County. 



In an arm of land formed by the union of Dunn's Creek with the river, is a 

 wooded territory, thick with trailing vines and scrub palmetto, forming a portion of 

 the Acosta grant, dating from Spanish occupation. 



The mounds, several hundred yards apart, about equidistant, are possibly one 

 mile from St. John's Landing on the river and Westonia on Dunn's Creek. 



• Mound 1. 



The measured height of this mound, which was totally destroyed, was 9 feet 

 7 inches, but as it formed the centre of a depression from which its material proba- 

 bly came, its actual height was about two feet less. At a level to justify this sup- 

 position, a layer of sand 3 to 6 inches in thickness, showing the effects of fire and 

 mingled with charcoal, extended through the mound. 



The base diameter was 62 feet. 



A previous investigator had dug through the summit plateau to the base. 



With the exception of a few fragmentary superficial bones, human remains, 

 represented by two isolated crania, were met with in but two places, at a depth of 

 5 and 6 feet respectively. 



Three arrow heads and a small sheet of mica represented the total yield of 

 objects of stone. 



Sherds were numerous, and of good quality, near the margin of the mound, 

 some having the complicated stamped decoration of Georgia and Carolina. This is 

 the farthest point south on the river where its occurrence has been noted. 



Near the eastern margin of the mound, on the base, which at this point was 

 2"5 feet from the surface, unassociated, was a globular bowl of earthenware, bearing- 

 traces of red pigment, with the usual base mutilation. Height, 6 inches; maximum 

 diameter, 9 - 25 inches. 



Three undecorated bowls of ordinary pattern and of poor material were found 

 separately in pockets of sand whitened by fire and containing fragments of charcoal. 



Mound 2. 



This mound, with a height of 5'5 feet, and a base diameter of 45 feet, was 

 virtually demolished. With the exception of a few fragments of human bones and 



