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The stone pipe represented below (Figure 58) was found in this immediate 

 vicinity. 



Fig. 68. 



Stone pipe found near the Stone Port and Cave in the vicinity of Manchester, Tennessee. About one-half of the 



natural size. 



This pipe was carved from beautiful dense chocolate-colored steatite, and repre- 

 sents a bird of prey, most probably tlie bald eagle. 



The low-lands bordering on Duck River in the vicinity of the Stone Fort appear 

 to have been thickly inhabited and extensively cultivated by the aborigines. In 

 the fields along the valley of Duck River, I found numerous arrow and spear-heads, 

 fragments of pottery and silex, several stone hatchets and chisels, and the oval flat 

 stone, pierced with two circular holes, and represented in figure 59. 



Fig. 50. 



Stone implements from the vicinity of the Stone Fort, near Manchester, Tennessee. One-half the natural size. 



In the woods northwest of the fort, several piles 

 of rock were observed, about two feet high and ten 

 feet in diameter. When these were removed, they 

 were found to have covered a layer of ashes, charcoal, 

 and burnt earth. They are supposed to have marked 

 the place of the incineration of human bodies. 

 These Avere the only remains resembling graves which 

 were discovered. 



Figure 60 is a copy of the plan, executed by E. 

 W. Nance, and represents the Stone Fort as inclosing 

 only forty-two acres. Haywood states that the fort 

 contained thirty-three acres of land within its walls. 

 In the plan of E. W. Nance, the general shape also is 

 incorrectly given. 



Fig, 

 STONE FORT. 



Plan of the Stone Fort, near Man- 

 chester, Tennessee, as executed by E. 

 W. Nance. 



