Sherds were infrequently met with, the majority being undecorated, though several from marginal parts of the mound bore cord-marked and stamped decorations. One bowl of about one pint capacity, with incised marginal decoration, lay apparently unassociated on the base. It unfortunately received a blow from a spade.
STONE
In all, eight stone hatchets, or “celts,” were met with, as a rule, in caved sand and probably from upper strata. One lay with a skeleton 3 feet from the surface. With it were two large barrel-shaped beads of shell.
No arrow heads, whole or fragmentary, were met with, nor were any fragments of chert, so numerous in many mounds, apparently present in this one.
SHELL
Loose in the sand, separately, were two fine large marine shells (Fasciolaria), while at various depths were several heavy conchs (Fulgur carica) worn and chipped down at the beak and with a round or oblong perforation opposite the aperture in the body-whorl between the shoulder and suture.
It has been customary to regard such shells as having served as war clubs. We have elsewhere pointed out that in the great majority of cases they must have been put to other uses, and give here some of our reasons:
1. The beak shows wear as by constant use.
2. The margin of the perforation is frequently smoothed as by continued motion against a handle, which would not be so in the case of a club.
3. Some specimens are entirely too small to have been of any avail as weapons of offense.