CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 493 



of marine shell which probably at one 

 time had some definite shape. Again, 

 human remains were wanting. 



In the northwest slope, together, un- 

 associated with human remains, were two 

 rough undecorated bowls, one imperforate 

 as to base, the other showing perforation 

 intentionally conferred. With these 

 were : one "celt" of polished stone; one 

 small boss of sheet copper ; bits of sand- 

 stone and a number of pieces of chert 

 resembling small rude arrowheads. 



Four feet from the surface, with- 

 out association, in red sand, was a 

 pendant of polished banded slate, 5.5 

 inches by 2.5 inches, with maximum 

 thickness of about 1 inch (Fig. 47). 



Two feet down, apart from human 

 remains, were a polished hatchet of stone 

 and a fragmentary ornament of sheet 

 copper with central double perforation. 



A small vessel of ordinary type lay 

 3.5 feet from the surface. With it was 

 an undecorated cylindrical vessel with 

 rounded imperforate base and slightly 

 flaring rim. Height, 7.25 inches ; maxi- 

 mum diameter, 4 inches ; aperture, 3.75 

 inches. With these, placed one within 

 the other, were several cockle shells 

 {Cardium). 



Occupying a central position in the 

 mound, 5 feet from the surface, in pale cherry sand, was a curious medley of 

 objects with fragmentary remains of an adolescent at one extremity and probably 

 the entire skeleton of a young child at the other. Included in the deposit were: 

 bits of charcoal ; a large clay tobacco pipe of the usual type ; a curious object of 

 polished sedimentary rock (Fig. 48); a slab of syenitic rock, entirely smooth and 

 slightly concave on one side, probably a sharpening stone ; several phalanges 

 of the deer; part of the core of a buck horn; two "celts"; hammer stones; 

 pebble hammers ; pebbles ; a small fragment of bitumen ; many Avorked portions 

 of columellae of marine univalves ; numerous chips of chert, some very diminutive ; 

 one arrowhead ; bits of coquina ; sheets of mica ; a small bit of clayey substance ; 

 one small undecorated earthenware bowl ; one cutting implement of chipped chert ; 

 many large and small beads of shell ; a circular ornament of sheet copper. 



Fig. 47. Pendant of banded slate. Low mounds south 

 of Grant mound. Mound E. (Full size.) 



