1894,] Shell Heaps of Florida. 21 
ARROW AND SPEAR POINTS CONTEMPORARY WITH THE 
SHELL HEAPS. 
FOUND IN PLACE BY THE WRITER. 
1—Two arrow heads of chert from the swamp shell-heap 
near Morrison’s Creek, (Volusia Co.,) lying on fire-place 
four feet eight inches from the surface.2 Of these, one 
is figured (Fig. 2). Though carried to a depth of nine 
and one half feet, this excavation showed no pottery 
below two feet from the surface. 
2.—Two arrow heads of chert and one of chalcedony from 
the great swamp shell-heap near Volusia, known as Mt. 
Taylor, (Volusia Co.,) respectively four and one-half 
(Fig. 3), six and one half and eight feet from the sur- 
face. All three lay upon fire-places. A careful search 
in many parts of this shell-heap showed no pottery 
whatever. 
3.—One arrow head of chert at Ginn’s Grove, (Orange Co.,) 
five miles south of Sanford, at a depth of two feet (Fig. 
4). No orange trees grow on this deposit. No pottery 
found in it, though comparatively abundant in an adja- 
cent shell field. 
4—One arrow head of chalcedony at a depth of six feet on 
a fire-place in the crescentic shell-heap at St. Francis, 
(Old Town), (Lake Co.,) (Fig. 5). Many excavations 
showed no pottery below four and one half feet from the 
surface. 
5.—One arrow head of chert six and one half feet from sur- 
face on fire-place in shell-heap west side of Puzzle Lake, 
(Orange Co.,) (Fig 6). No pottery found below a depth 
of two feet. i 
6.—A fragment of spear head of chalcedony at Orange 
Mound, (Orange Co.,) about twenty-one miles by water 
It will be seen that a majority of the arrow heads were found immediately upon 
fire-places, and of the remainder, the writer is unable to state that such was not also 
the case. With some were the bones of lower animals. It has been suggested to the 
writer that as it is unlikely that weapons so comparatively scarce as were arrow 
points at the period of the shell-heaps, should be lost without some reason, the stone 
points met with by him were thrown on the fire-places buried in the carcasses of ani- 
mals, This seems a not unlikely hypothesis. 
