586 PREHISTORIC VILLAGES IN TENNESSEE [ETH. ANN. 41 
Boiling by means of heated stones placed within the vessel was 
also sometimes practiced. This stone boiling was a survival of the 
preceramic usage, when the boiling was done in baskets or vessels of 
skins. 
Fic. 189.—Restoration of vessel No. 10, mound No. 2 
MOUND NO. 3, A BURIAL MOUND OF THE FLEXED- 
BURIAL PEOPLE 
The low oval mound, No. 3, on the southwest corner of the town 
square, was a burial mound. It is shown in Plates 124 and 125, a. If 
this mound had at any time 
supported a building or had 
ever been used for any pur- 
pose other than burial, all 
traces had been removed by 
long erosion and 85 years of 
continuous cultivation. 
At the present time this 
mound measures about 100 
by 110 feet across the top. 
It slopes so gradually into 
the adjoining soil that it is 
impossible to determine its 
exact limits. It had origi- 
nally been built on the 
summit of a very low knoll. 
The center of the mound 
at the present time is about 
3 feet above what was for- 
Fia. 190.—Cooking pot (reproduced from Schoolcraft, merly the high point of the 
vol. 1, pl. xxii) 
knoll. 
It had originally probably contained 10 or 15 stone-slab graves. 
All but two of these had been destroyed by the relic hunter or the 
plow. These graves had been made on the original surface of the 
low knoll and the mound raised around and over them. 
