Ricklis-1994-Fig.8.33

This early 18th century grave at the Mitchell Ridge site on Galveston Island contained multiple individuals and was ringed by five large post molds, square to rectangular in outline. These posts were probably fashioned from square-hewn timbers salvaged, directly or indirectly, from 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.