496 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



pieces of charcoal. The remainder of the mound was of yellowish sand with local 

 streaks and pockets of white sand throughout and several small seams of cherry- 

 colored sand in the northeastern portion. 



Human remains were not present in the marginal portion of the mound, but 

 were encountered toward the center at twelve different places. The usual bunched 

 burial of fragmentary portions of the skeleton prevailed. Four times, isolated 

 crania were encountered. Again, shafts of a femur and tibia lay with a pelvis 

 and a single vertebra. In one case two long bones represented an entire burial, and 

 again a single humerus was found unassociated. The bones, in the last stage of 

 decay, were encountered at different depths, from the base to within a short distance 

 of the surface. 



Sherds were infrequently met with. 



Two and one-half feet from the surface, near no human remains, was an 

 interesting cylindrical cup 4.4 inches in height, with a diameter of 2.8 inches. It 

 is absolutely intact, The base is flat, permitting the maintenance of an upright 

 position. There are two holes for suspension at opposite sides of the rim. It has 

 interesting incised and punctate decoration (Plate LXXIX, Fig. 2). 



Chippings, flakes, and cores of chert, so abundant in some mounds, were want- 

 ing in this one. 



In all, five polished stone hatchets were met with, four separately in caved 

 sand, one about 2 feet from the surface. None seemed to be in the neighborhood 

 of human remains. 



A serrated arrowhead of chert lay, unassociated, 1 foot from the surface. 



A pebble about 2 inches long, showing use at either end, completed the list of 

 art relics taken from the mound. 



REMARKS. 



The Broward mound is typical of a certain class of sand mounds met with 

 on the St. Johns in that the considerable amount of material was wholly dispropor- 

 tionate to the small number of interments. 



In another respect also it was typical of certain mounds of the river. All 

 relics were comparatively centrally located, and, so nearly as could be determined, 

 at no great distance from the surface and unassociated with skeletal remains, 

 showing the inhumation of art relics to have been made in common toward the 

 completion of the mound. There were, however, it must be remembered, many 

 mounds on the St. Johns, not embraced in this class, where artifacts were 

 discovered from the margin throughout and associated with human remains. 

 Of this class of mounds were that at Tick Island, Thursby mound, the mound at 

 Blue Creek and others. 



Nothing in the Broward mound gave evidence of White contact. 



