488 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



specimen restricted the search. At G and H are indicated places where the convex 

 plate has fallen away exposing the plate beyond. 



" The larger ornament was examined on both surfaces as carefully as its con- 

 dition would allow, but no rivets were discovered. It was, however, apparently 

 constructed after the fashion of the convex sheet of the smaller ornament, as shown 

 by the overlapping at the point, by the fissure along the median line of the concave 

 surface and by the apposed tongues projecting from the convex surface." 



REMARKS. 



It is probable that the demolition of the Grant mound was a work as extensive 

 and as carefully conducted as anything of the kind ever undertaken in this country. 

 During the entire investigation not one object in any way connecting the mound 

 with a period subsequent to White contact, was discovered. Under the circum- 

 stances, we think the mound and its contents may safely be assigned to a period 

 prior to the arrival of Europeans. 



Low Mounds South of Grant Mound. 



About 500 yards in a southerly direction from the Grant mound, in dense 

 underbrush, was a series of low elevations of irregular shape, which had been 

 considered of natural formation, by persons who knew of their existence. 



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Fig. 43.— Plan of low mounds south of Grant mound. 



It was difficult to determine whether these earthworks consisted of one curved 

 ridge with occasional depressions, or a number of low intersecting mounds. For 

 purposes of description we shall treat them as a series of mounds as figured in 

 accompanying plan (Fig. 43). The mounds were totally demolished by permission 

 of James B. Grant, Esq., the owner. 



Mound A. Height, 4 feet; diameter of base, 36 feet. But two burials were 

 discovered in this mound, both of the bunched variety, one representing portions 



