188 



CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF 



inch. It consists of five hemispheres ranged in a line in contact, much like certain 

 bar-pins worn by women at the present time. The central and largest hemisphere 

 has one on either side equalling each other in size, included by two smaller terminal 

 hemispheres, each 4 of an inch in diameter (Fig. 61). This beautiful ornament has 

 been submitted to various high authorities, who in every case have pronounced it 

 probably unique. 



Somewhat less than 4 feet down, in mutual contact, but unassociated with 

 human remains, were a lance point of chert; a pendent ornament of stone, o - 5 

 inches in length, with double perforation, slightly convex on one side, flat on the 



other (Fig. 62) ; a pebble, almost spherical, having a 

 diameter of one inch. Through the centre of this peb- 

 ble, a perforation had been attempted from either side 

 and for some reason abandoned. To one side of this 

 a hole had been drilled, resulting in a fracture of the 

 outer portion of the stone, while on the other side of 

 the attempted perforation the endeavor had been safely 

 carried to completion. 



With two bunched burials were respectively 28 and 

 30 large beads wrought from the columellas of marine 

 univalves. The maximum size of any bead was 1*4 

 inches and 12 inches in its major and minor axes. 



With the bones of a child lay a shell drinking cup 

 with perforated base. 



No whole pottery was encountered. Sherds were 

 infrequent. 



Throughout the mound were fragments of red 

 Hematite. 



In the western slope of the mound, above the base, 

 Pendent ornament of [ n actual contact, were about a dozen cockle shells 

 (Cardmm) and salt water mussels [Modioia plicatula). 

 They were unassociated with human remains. 



Fig. 62. 

 stone, 

 size.) 



Harris Mound. (Full 



CONCLUSIONS. 



There is no reason to suppose that this mound was constructed subsequent to 

 the Discovery. 



Mound Near Bayard Point, Clay County. 



Bayard Point, nearly opposite Picolata, on the western side of the St. John's, 

 is about seven miles south of Green Cove Springs. On the point is a fortification 

 of considerable size, with moat, forming three sides of a square. The river side is 

 unprotected, possibly through erosion by the current. This fortification is said to 

 date from the Spanish occupation, veterans of the Seminole war positively affirming 

 its pre-existence to that war. 



