EARTHWORKS ON THE BIG HARPETH RIVER. 



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Fig. 38. 



Another small specimen of tlie disc kind, and from the same locality, 2 inches 

 in diameter and Jq inch thick in tlie outer border, is formed of hard green serpen- 

 tine, to which a very high polish had been imparted. 



The stone hatchet shown in Fig. 38, and which was obtained from a stone grave 

 within the line of earthworks, is formed of beautiful 

 green chloritic slate, highly polished, and is perforated 

 by a hole, the sides of which are quite smooth. The 

 hole appeared to have been used for the insertion of 

 a rivet through the handle of this stone hatchet or bat- 

 tle-axe. 



Numerous stone chisels and wedges of various sizes, 

 from 1.5 inches in length to 10 inches, highly polished, 

 and composed of hard green chlorite, variegated serpen- 

 tine, limestone, and silex, two of which are represented 

 in Figs. 39 and 40, have from time to time been found 

 within and around these ancient works. 



The grave from which these stone implements were 

 taken contained numerous similar objects. These small stone implements must 

 have been used for mechanical purposes, as they appear to be too small to have 

 been used in warfare. 



Hatchet of hard green chloritic 

 slate from a stone grave within 

 the ancient works on Big Har- 

 pejh, two and a half miles above 

 Franklin, Tennessee. One-fourth 

 natural size. 



Fig. 39. 



Fig. 40. 



Fig. 39. Polished wedge or fleshing instrument of green chlorite from a stone grave within the ancient works 

 on Big Harpeth, two and a half miles above Franklin, Tennessee. Ooe-fourth natural size. 



Fig. 40. Small chisel of green chloritic stone, sharpened at both ends, from a stone grave within the ancient works 

 on Big Ilarpeth River, two and a half miles above Franklin, Tennessee. One-half natural size. 



Fig. 41. 



Several pipes have been found in this locality. I succeeded, however, in obtain- 

 ing only a small one fashioned of sandstone, and repre- 

 sented in Fig. 41. The exterior of the pipe is rudely 

 carved with lines as in the figure. 



The largest pipes found in this locality resemble the 

 one formed of a chocolate-colored stone in the shape of a 

 parrot, which I obtained near Murfreesboro', Tennessee, 

 and which is represented one-fourth the natural size in 



Fig. 42. 



Sandstone pipe from a stone 

 grave in an aboriginal earth- 

 work on Big Harpeth Eiver, 

 two and a half miles above 

 Franklin, Tennessee. Length 

 two and a half inches. 



Several of the pipes found in the valleys of the Cumber- 

 land, Harpeth, and Duck Rivers, in Tennessee, which I 



have examined, were formed of a hard green stone, to which a high polish had 

 been imparted. Some of these pipes were of considerable size, being 1 8 inches in 

 length. The form of a bird having the general appearance of the one given above, 

 or of the eagle or the quail, seems to have been most generally employed by the 



