CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 499 



Joining mounds A and B was a causeway about 28 feet long, 1 foot 4 inches 

 in height, with an average width of 12 feet at the base. 



Mound B. A considerable portion of this mound had been carted away for 

 use in the neighboring orange grove. The discovery of many art relics is said to 

 have been made at the time. The height of the remainder of the mound was 

 about 18 inches. Judging from trees still remaining, the original maximum 

 altitude was from 3 feet to 4 feet. The diameter of the base was 86 feet. 



The mound was carefully dug through by twenty men during two and one- 

 half days. 



The sand was of a brownish color, apparently from the effect of fire and a con- 

 siderable intermingling of particles of charcoal. This combination extended about 

 2 feet below the level of the surrounding territory. Relics were found from the 

 margin in, bofli above and below a dark line showing a large percentage of charcoal, 

 which ran through the mound at the level of the surrounding territory and seem- 

 ingly marked where a fire had been built after the filling of an excavation. 



Human remains were represented by small fragments in the last stage of decay. 



As much of the contents of this mound suggest those of many low neighboring 

 mounds, we shall not give in detail the various associations of pebbles, pebble- 

 hammers, mica, chips of chert, hones of sandstone, marine shells and fragments 

 of shell contained therein. 



Three " celts " were met with, several arrowheads, small pendants of shell, 

 and at one point a large mass of crimson pigment. 



Near the base, that is to say about 2 feet below the general level, or 3.5 feet 

 down, together, - were : two pebbles; a toy pot; a shark's tooth, and 142 minute 

 chippings of chert. 



Earthenware constituted the feature of the mound, and was encountered in 

 great abundance, though, with two or three exceptions, so poor was the material 

 that vessels were recovered in a very fragmentary condition. Certain large vessels 

 and numerous smaller ones, inhumed with portions missing and badly crushed by 

 weight of sand, were abandoned. 



Sherds were abundant and, in common with fragmentary vessels, presented 

 various intricate stamped designs shown in Plate LXXX, and Plate LXXXI, Figs. 

 1 and 2. 



Lined and punctate decoration also was represented on fragmentary vessels 

 and sherds, while in one case the use of a small tubular stamp was apparent, show- 

 ing a circular prominence surrounded by a depression. 



Of the larger vessels, some of so much as about four gallons capacity, none 

 was capable of restoration. Four vessels were recovered intact, and nine in a more 

 or less imperfect condition. Four vessels were imperforate as to the base ; the 

 remainder, and apparently all others interred in the mound, had suffered intentional 

 mutilation of the base after completion. 



Two small bowls lay together, one containing the other. A vessel of good 

 material, thick and heavy, somewhat globular, with sloping rim, is decorated with 



