Additional mounds of Duval and of Clay counties, Florida; Mound investigation on the east coast of Florida; Certain Florida coast mounds north of the St. Johns riverMoore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield)
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Additional mounds of Duval and of Clay counties, Florida; Mound investigation on the east coast of Florida; Certain Florida coast mounds north of the St. Johns river
Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield)
Florida -- Antiquities; Mounds -- Florida
About 2.5 feet from the surface, together, were fragments of lower
animal bones; pebbles; a bit of quartz; fragments of marine shell;
and several bits of chert rudely worked to resemble the arrowhead but
too imperfect to be of service for any but sepulchral purposes.
Variously associated throughout the mound were a number of sheets of
mica; pebble hammers; pebbles; several bits of chert and hones of
sandstone.
SHELL
Upon several occasions fragments of mussel shells, probably whole at
the time of interment, lay with human remains and with artifacts.
In one instance, with human remains and other objects, was the
columella of a marine univalve neatly worked to a blunt point at
either end.
REMARKS
This mound closely resembles many other low mounds of Duval County in
the presence of abundant earthenware, of tobacco pipes of prehistoric
pattern, of mica and of pebbles.
Nothing in the mound indicated acquaintance with the products of
Europe.
TWO LOW MOUNDS AT SOUTH JACKSONVILLE, DUVAL COUNTY
These two mounds, almost contiguous, were on property belonging to
the Hendricks estate. The ground, destined for building purposes,
has been cleared and has evidently been under cultivation.
The smaller mound, circular in shape, had a height of 1 foot 8
inches, a base diameter of 52 feet. The mound had evidently been
greatly spread out and a good portion of its contents doubtless
scattered. The central portion was dug through, resulting in the
discovery of a few sherds and here and there fragments of human
remains.
The larger mound was irregular in shape; its major and minor axes
being respectively 72 feet and 50 feet. Its height was 3 feet 3
inches. Its general appearance called to mind the low mound at
Floral Bluff, Duval County, and the largest of the low mounds south
of the great Grant mound, where our investigation was so richly
rewarded. Our hopes in respect to this mound, however, were doomed
to disappointment, for mound work is a lottery where blanks largely
predominate.
The central portion of the mound was entirely dug through, yielding
one interment badly decayed and apparently previously disturbed. A
few sherds with complicated stamped decoration were met with.
LOW MOUND AT POINT LA VISTA, DUVAL COUNTY
Point La Vista, on the eastern bank of the St. Johns, is about four
miles above Jacksonville.
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