A curious earthenware knob, evidently broken from some vessel, lay in the sand.
Two polished hatchets were met with, one with human remains, 6 inches from the surface, the other in caved sand.
On a fireplace 5 feet from the surface were certain bones of the deer.
Several chips of chert, a rude implement of chert, a hone of sandstone and two chert arrowheads, were found separately in the sand.
Fig. 1.—Tobacco pipe of earthenware. Low Mound at Point La Vista. (Length over curve, 5⅞ in.)
Loose in the sand were several conchs, a number of oyster-shells and the columella of a large marine univalve worked to a point.
As this portion of Florida has been long under cultivation, it is impossible to say what artifacts may have been removed by the plow in previous years.
Low Mounds near Point La Vista, Duval County
Partly on the property of Mr. Shad, resident near by, and of Mrs. J. R. Hunter, of Albany, N. Y., about one mile in a southerly direction from Point La Vista, were three low intersecting mounds (Fig. [2]) all showing signs of former cultivation. By arrangement with Mr. Shad, and with kind consent of George M. Wyeth, M. D., of Jacksonville, in charge of the Hunter property, these mounds were totally dug through at a depth of three to four feet below the level of the surrounding territory.