526 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER, FLORIDA. 



STONE. 



Five and one-half feet from the surface was a pendent ornament wrought from 

 a nodule of chert, globular in shape, with grooved projection for suspension. 

 Traces of bitumen surround the groove. The ornament lay in a pocket of fire- 

 whitened sand, though no traces of heat are upon it, and the presence of bitumen 



Fig. 75. — Pendant of silieified fossil 

 bone. Gamble mound. (Full 

 size ) 



Fig. 73. — Pendant made from chert nodule. 

 Gamble mound. (Full size.) 



Fig. 74. — Pendent ornament. Gamble mound. 

 (About full size.) 



shows the deposit to have been made after the extinction of the fire. Length, about 

 2.5 inches; maximum diameter, 1.7 inches (Fig. 73). 



A graceful pendant of slate, of a type not met with by us elsewhere, was 

 recovered from previously disturbed sand. Former explorers state that from the 

 small excavation made by them, an exactly similar ornament was recovered. The 

 shape of the pendant is cylindrical, swelling out somewhat at and below the center 

 and then tapering to a point. A groove surrounds the upper portion. Length, 

 3.7 inches ; maximum diameter, .5 of one inch (Fig. 74). 



A pendant, probably of silieified fossil bone, in shape somewhat suggesting 

 our "Indian clubs" used for exercise, though thicker at the handle, has a length 

 of 2.6 inches, a maximum diameter of .75 of one inch. Considerable bitumen 

 surrounds the groove and upper portion of the ornament (Fig. 75). 



