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| The most internally complex grave at Mitchell Ridge was Feature 63, an Early Historic grave containing the remains of at least six individuals ranging in age from infant to mature adult and interred in four different modes of burial: primary, secondary, secondary cremation, and secondary token burial. The grave s pit about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in diameter that was ringed by five large post molds square to rectangular in outline. These may have had been fashioned from square-hewn timbers like those found on the Spanish and French sailing vessels known to have wrecked along the upper Texas coast in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Adapted from Ricklis 1994, Figure 8.33. |