186 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



Mound Near St. Augustine Road, St. John's County. 



This mound lay a short distance north of the St. Augustine road, about 6 - 5 

 miles from Picolata. It presented a somewhat un symmetrical appearance through 

 previous superficial examination. Its height was about 5 feet; its base diameter 

 37 feet. With the exception of the marginal portion, believed to have been largely 

 washed or thrown from the summit and sides, the mound was totally destroyed. It 

 was unstratified and contained the usual admixture of charcoal. The form of 

 burial was the bunched variety, the bones being in the last stages of decay. Two 

 polished hatchets were found, while 4 - 5 feet from the surface, in pinkish sand, with 

 human remains, was a thin sheet of copper, about 3"5 inches by - 5 of an inch, with 

 a thick backing of wood greatly decayed. Sherds were infrequent. Nothing indi- 

 cating a knowledge of the Whites was discovered. 



Mound Near Clark's Creek, Clay County. 



This mound, near the southern bank of Clark's Creek, about one mile from the 

 St. John's, had an approximate height of 6 feet, with a base diameter of 70 feet. 

 It was unsymmetrical in shape, showing considerable wash from heavy rains. It 

 was virtualty demolished. Its composition was yellowish sand, containing occasional 

 particles of charcoal. 



Total results were three or four small fragments of human bone at various 

 points ; several arrow heads ; one hammer stone ; one small polished hatchet, and 

 a few sherds, showing separation by pointed implements. 



Nothing to indicate a post-Columbian origin for the mound was discovered. 



Harris Mound, St. John's County. 



This mound, in the midst of a grove of bearing orange trees, on the river's 

 edge, about three miles north of Picolata, was the property of Dr. L. H. Harris, of 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., to which gentleman we are indebted for active assistance, and for 

 permission to investigate various sites bordering, the St. John's, belonging to him. 



The mound, the usual truncated cone, had a height of 6 - 5 feet, with a base 

 diameter of 64 feet. Upon it grew forest trees, hickory, water-oak, and the slow 

 growing live-oak, one of the latter having a circumference of 10 feet measured 5 

 feet from the ground. The mound was destroyed. 



Stratification was marked. Extending from the surface to a depth of 2 feet 

 was a layer of sand pinkish through admixture of Hematite. Below the upper layer 

 was the yellow sand of the surrounding territory reaching to the base, the line of 

 which was marked by a dark band about 2 inches in width, sprinkled with charcoal 

 and showing at places marks of fire. 



Upon the base of the mound, including the central portion, was a flooring of 

 split plank in the last stages of decay, about 13 feet square. Its thickness was 2 

 inches. A portion of this wood submitted to Professor J. T. Rothrock was kindly 



