MYER] THE FEWKES GROUP 605 
GRAVE C 
Limestone-slab grave C adjoined grave B on the east. Length of 
coffin 5 feet 10 inches. Width 14 inches at east end and 15 inches 
at west end. Ran N. 40° W. Bottom lined with thin limestone 
slabs. Body of adult male. (U.S. National Museum, Division of 
Physical Anthropology, No. 316103.) It was extended full length, 
on back, arms at sides. No ornaments or artifacts with the body. 
Cranium had been broken by the plow. Dr. Hrdlitka’s report, 
page 612 of this paper, says this skull was undeformed and shows 
‘a mildly brachycephalic form, which would seem to indicate a con- 
nection of these people with those of the mound region of Ohio and 
parts of Kentucky.” 
PROBABLE REMAINS OF RECTANGULAR STONE GRAVE PEOPLE 
Hon. P. E. Cox, of Franklin, Tenn., did a small amount of digging 
at Fewkes group about 1895. He made no written record at the 
time. The information given herewith depends on his recollection 
after a period of 25 years. 
He opened a stone-slab grave about 100 feet southwest of house 
circle No. 17, in the region marked “‘Scattered graves.” Body was 
on back, and probably at full length. Head rested in conch-shell cup. 
In the region to the north and south of house circle No. 17 he found 
five or six beds of ashes containing pottery fragments and broken 
bones. These beds were about 21% feet in diameter and about 2 feet 
beneath the surface of the soil. He thinks this line of beds ran north 
and south, and that they were about 7 feet distant from each other. 
Some limestone slabs were lying between them. He found nothing 
under the slabs. It will be recalled that somewhat similar slabs 
were found on the original surface under mound No. 2. 
' Between the two large oak trees between mound No. 5 and house 
remains No. 12 he found what appeared to be a kitchen refuse dump. 
On the northwest portion of mound No. 2, marked ‘‘Cox”’ in 
Figure 164, he found the following burials: The first was a stone- 
slab coffin, the top of which was sufficiently near the surface to have 
been removed by the plow. It contained the body of an adult, 
extended full length, with no relics. Ten inches immediately below 
the coffin was the body of another adult, not in a stone coffin. He 
thinks he found about three more skeletons buried immediately 
beneath the two bodies mentioned. None of these were in coffins. 
In other words, at this point he thinks he found about five bodies 
buried, extended full length, each below the other. What he prob- 
ably found was a stone-slab coffin containing two or three bodies 
each on top of the other. The author found similar stone-slab graves 
at Castalian Springs, in Sumner County, Tenn. 
Mr. Cox was not positive as to whether these bodies were extended 
full length or flexed but thought probably they were full length. 
