CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 501 



diameter, 10.5 inches ; diameter of aperture, 4.5 inches. It is shown, pieced 

 together, in Plate LXXXIII, while in Plate LXXXIV, Fig. 1, we give a front 

 view of the head. 



We have above alluded to the chipping off of portions of vessels with pointed 

 implements. In Part II of our report on the St. Johns mounds we spoke of many 

 sherds not broken but detached by piercing implements, and stated that this 

 curious custom seemed to be confined to a limited area bordering the lower portion 

 of the St. Johns River. Since the publication of that report we have noted the 

 occurrence of these peculiar sherds and of vessels intentionally deprived of certain 

 parts by the aid of pointed implements, at points throughout a wide area, including 

 a mound on the Econlockhatchee Creek, Orange County, about thirty-five miles by 

 water south of Sanford, and certain mounds of Crescent Lake, Putnam Count}". 



A sheet of mica and a hand- 

 some arrow point of jasper were 

 the only other art relics dis- 

 covered in the mound. 



About 10 feet south of the 

 western extremity of the Denton 

 mound was a mound about 1 foot 

 in heia;lit and 20 feet across the 

 base. In the center, about 2.5 

 feet down, was a small layer of 

 charred human bones. Two or 

 three sherds completed the con- 

 tents of the mound. 



Two Low Mounds at 

 Chaseville. 



On the property of Mr. I. 

 Harrington, who readily granted 

 permisson to explore, was the 

 site of a mound which had been 

 entirely leveled and carted to an 

 adjacent field. The diameter was 

 about 30 feet, It probably once 

 had a height of about 2 feet. 



It was completely dug 

 through at a depth of 2.5 feet 

 below the surface. The usual 

 mica, chips of chert, fragments of 

 marine shells, variously associated, were present, and in addition, a noble barbed 

 lance-head of reddish chert, 5 inches in length, lying with a shell chisel at a depth 

 of 2 feet (Fig. 53). No human remains were met with. 



Fig. 53. — Lance-head of chert. Mound at Chaseville. (Full size.) 



