490 CEKTAIN EIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



No human remains were discovered in association, nor were there apparently any 

 farther traces of skeletal remains in any other portion of the mound. 



Mound E. Five feet eight inches in height ; major and minor axes 91 feet 

 and 78 feet respectively. 



This mound was dug through with great care at a 1 level considerably below 

 that of the surrounding territory. 



At but four points in the mound were skeletal remains encountered. All 

 interments were of the bunched variety, in no case representing the full comple- 

 ment of bones. 



Fig. 45. — Sherd showing pinched decoration. Low 

 mounds south of Grant mound. Mound E. (Full 



size.) 



Fig. 44. — Sherd with complicated stamped decoration. Low mounds south of 

 Grant mound. Mound E. (Full size.) 



The mound was literally filled with earthenware — whole vessels, fragmentary 

 ones, and sherds. Many sherds bore complicated stamps, one of which we show 

 in Fig. 44. Another had a pinched decoration (Fig. 45). 



With an isolated cranium, 2 feet 8 inches from the surface, lay a piercing 

 implement of bone, badly decayed, with a number of large fresh-water mussel shells 



