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ANTIQUITIES IN TENNESSEE. 



Among tlie most interesting of these relics is a beautiful stone disc or paint 

 mortar, formed of hard yellow silex, hollowed on both sides, highly polished, and so 

 thin in the central portion as to be translucent. It is 6 inches in diameter, and 

 2.3 inches thick along the border or outer rim. The excavations on either side 

 are 5 inches in diameter and I.l inches deep. The thickness of the septum dividing 

 the two excavations is only one-tenth of an inch. 



Fig. 34. 



Group of vases and pots, composed of crushed shells and clay, from stone graves within the ancient works on 

 the Harpeth Kiver, two and a half miles above Franklin, Tennessee. About one-fourth the natural size. 



Fig. 35. 



Group of vases, same material and locality as Fig. 34. 



A discoidal stone formed of a conglomerate of variously colored siliceous pebbles, 

 four inches in diameter and two inches in thickness, taken from a stone grave 

 within the line of the earthworks, is represented in Fig. 36. 



Fig. 36. 



Fig. 37. 



Fig. 36. Discoidal stone from the ancient worfcs on Big Harpeth River, two and a half miles above Franklin, 

 Tennessee. One-fourth natural size. 



Fig. 37. Biconcave discoidal .stone, about one-fourth natural size, from the ancieut works on Big Harpeth Eiver, 

 two and a half miles .above Franklin, Tennessee. 



One of the biconcave discoidal stones of hard silex, perforated by a small hole 

 in the centre, is represented in Fig. 37. 



