502 CERTAIN RIVER MOUNDS OF DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA. 



A few yards from the mound just described, on the property of Mrs. Mary 

 Bennevis, was a mound 1 foot in height, with a diameter of base of about 20 feet. 



About 1.5 feet from the surface was a central deposit of human bones repre- 

 senting parts of various skeletons. No others were met with. 



Loose in the sand and singly were : one undecorated bowl in fragments ; one 

 cube of lead sulphide ; one arrowhead ; one bit of pottery intentionally given the 

 outline of the arrow point and various sherds. 



Low Mounds at Floral Bluff. 



By the roadside, about 300 yards inland from the landing at Floral Bluff, on 

 the property of Mr. G. H. Shepard, to whom we wish to express our thanks, was 

 an asymmetrical mound, or, more properly, a V-shaped ridge, having its maximum 

 height of 4.5 feet in the western arm, about 50 feet from the apex which points 

 almost due south. The western arm has a length of 170 feet; the eastern, about 

 30 feet less. The maximum width of the western arm was 46 feet; that of the 

 eastern, 37 feet. 



The most prominent portions of the ridge were dug through at considerable 

 depth. 



Human remains — mere fractional portions of the skeleton — were encountered 

 seven times, all within an area of a few square yards, beneath the highest portion 

 of the ridge. 



With human remains, about 3 feet down, was a large tobacco pipe of earthen- 

 ware, one portion filled with bitumen and with a considerable quantity near by. 

 This pipe, somewhat broken, had all portions present. About 1 foot above was a 

 smaller tobacco pipe of earthenware in many fragments and incapable of restoration. 



About 3.5 feet from the surface, near human remains, was a vessel of bean- 

 shaped outline of about one quart capacity. Its base is intact. Traces of red pig- 

 ment are inside and out (Plate LXXXIV, Fig. 2). With it were many pebbles 

 and chips of chert. 



At various depths were nests of fragments of parts of different vessels, and 

 one deposit of many minute drippings of chert. 



