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
A streak of red sand beneath a seam of charcoal led to a large cockle
shell (_Cardium_) badly decayed, and a small vessel of earthenware
with two compartments and a handle on either end, very similar in
type to one taken by us from the Hopson mound, Lake County, and
figured by us (pl. LXXXV, fig. 2) in our Report on the mounds of the
Ocklawaha river. Apparently no human remains were with these objects.
A small imperforate undecorated bowl of ordinary type lay one foot
from the surface with fragments of parts of a large undecorated clay
vessel, near human remains.
Three feet from the surface, apparently unassociated with skeletal
remains, were portions of a vessel of about six quarts capacity, with
complicated stamped decoration. The base showed perforation after
manufacture.
Several pebble-hammers lay singly loose in the sand.
_Mound C._ Diameter of base, 58 feet; height, 2 feet 2 inches.
Human remains, mere fractional parts of the skeleton, present at
ten different points, were confined to the southern portion and the
eastern margin of the mound.
Three feet, eight inches from the surface, in the southern margin,
with several large shell beads and one small shell (_Marginella_)
longitudinally pierced, were portions of a cranium of a child about
nine years of age; also several molars and one vertebra. In the
vicinity lay a hatchet of polished stone.
Together were: three pebble-hammers, one pitted on one side and
neatly rounded; one small pebble; a cutting implement of chipped
chert, 6 inches in length, possibly incomplete; several conchs
(_Fulgur carica_) badly decayed, perforated in the body whorl
opposite the aperture; bits of columella of large marine univalves;
several mussel shells, fragmentary through decay; and what decay
had spared of one piercing implement of bone. All these lay with
human remains in the eastern margin of the mound, about 3 feet from
the surface.
[Illustration: PLATE I
EARTHENWARE VESSEL WITH FIVE COMPARTMENTS. MOUND SOUTH OF POINT LA
VISTA]
[Illustration: PLATE II
OUTLINE VIEW FROM ABOVE OF VESSEL SHOWN IN PLATE I]
In close proximity to the deposit just described were human remains
at about the same depth. With them were one lance head, two
arrowheads and eleven chips, all of chert.
In various parts of the mound were nests of many fragments of various
vessels, buried in close contact, as we have described elsewhere as
present in numbers of low mounds of Duval County.
Three and one-half feet from the surface, beginning almost at the
southern margin and extending in for about 6 feet, was a large log
or several smaller ones pressed together with lines of separation no
longer distinguishable, in the last stage of decay. The upper surface
was considerably charred.
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