494 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



Throughout the mound were various other bowls 

 of ordinary type, some imperforate ; pebbles ; bits of 

 marine shells and the like, variously associated and often 

 in pockets of cherry or reddish sand. 



At various points were considerable deposits of bits 

 of earthenware representing parts of different bowls, but 

 in no case sufficient for restoration. 



REMARKS. 



These low mounds offer, so far as the earthenware 

 is concerned, a striking contrast to their near neighbor, 

 the great Grant mound. In that mound the earthen- 

 ware, almost entirely of the "freak" mortuar}^ variety, 

 showed no marks of domestic use, while the vessels in 

 the low mounds were in many cases evidently originally 

 intended for culinary purposes and bore on their bases and 

 sides the soot received during domestic use. Earthen- 

 ware of complicated stamped decoration, virtually absent 

 from the Grant mound, abounded in these low neighbor- 

 ing mounds. 



As we have stated, human remains were encountered 

 at but four points in the largest mound. That so great 

 a heap of sand should have been thrown up for so few 

 interments seems unlikely, in view of the number of art 

 relics found in every portion. In mounds where relics 

 are inhumed in a general way, they are found in a central 

 position and somewhat superficially. We deem it not 

 unlikely that all traces of other interments in this mound 

 have entirely disappeared. 



Nothing was discovered in these low mounds in any way connecting them with 

 a period other than pre-Columbian. 



Low Mounds near Horse-shoe Landing. 



These low mounds and ridges lie about 500 yards in a southerly direction 

 from the landing. They were thickly covered with " scrub " and had sustained no 

 previous examination. Our investigation was conducted with the kind permission 

 of J. B. Parsons, Esq., the owner. 



Mound A, the easternmost, was somewhat irregular in shape, and had an 



Fig. 48. — Unidentified object of 

 sedimentary rock. Low 

 mounds south of Grant 

 mound. Mound E. (Full 

 size.) 



Its maximum height was 3 feet 7 inches. 



It 



average diameter of base of 50 feet, 

 was completely demolished. 



Human remains were encountered but four times, in each case but a small 

 portion of the skeleton being represented. 



