1893.] Shell Heaps of Florida. 619 
About one foot south of this burial on a line with the ribs 
was found what was probably a burial of the kind so well 
known in some of the sand mounds of the river and of 
the coast, where the body, previously exposed to the ele- 
Sherd, Orange Mound. (74 size.) 
4. ee 
Sherd, Orange Mound. (% size.) 
ments, is denuded of flesh before burial. As a rule, the 
larger bones are placed in a bundle horizontally and are 
surmounted by the skull. In this case the cranium lay below 
the bones. Above it in immediate association were the larger 
bones of the body. The lower jaw lay about six inches from 
| the upper jaw to one side with the teeth turned away. A few 
vertebre were beneath the head, while two heel bones were 
with the bundle. Upright by the skull was a femur belong- 
ing to another body. All these bones were badly decayed 
