The Northwestern Florida Coast Revisited (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...separated, when put together proved to have belonged to a most interesting vessel on which, in relief, had been representations of four duck heads (Fig. 19). Unfortunately not sufficient of this vessel was found to furnish a basis for a complete restoration of the extreme upper part. The base is intact, the breaking and scattering presumably fulfilling the ceremony. Several low mounds in pine woods in this region were explored without discovery of bones or of artifacts. Mounds In Brock Hammock, Bay' County. A small mound in Brock Hammock, about 3 miles southerly from West Bay P. O., is described by us in a former report.'2 Near this mound, on hammock land belonging to the West Bay Naval Stores and Lumber Co., St. Andrews, Fla., were two low rises, a short distance apart. Careful search with trial-holes unearthed dwelling-site debris, shells, fishbones, sherds, etc. In one was a skeleton partly flexed to the right. Mound West Of Burnt Mill CREEK,3 Bay County. In pine woods belonging to the Sale-Davis Co., Southport, Fla., was a mound about one-quarter mile west of Burnt Mill creek and one mile from its mouth, approximately. This mound, about 2.5 feet in height from the outside and 3 feet from base to summit, had a basal diameter of 45 feet. All the eastern part of the mound and also considerable on each side of it (in which latter digging nothing was found), as well as all the central portion, were dug out. On the base near the center was an inconsiderable deposit of human bones cremated into small fragments. Centrally were two bunched burials of limited size, and part of a skull alone. 1 That part of St. Andrews bay in which these mounds are was included in Washington county at the time of our visit in 1902. 3 Op. cit, p. 140. 3 In our 1902 report two moun...