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With one of the lower bodies he found a nest of four upright pottery 
bowls, similar to the one shown in Plate 118, a. The largest was 
about 10 inches in diameter and the others in decreasing sizes. Near 
the pelvis of one of the bodies he found a fine 8-inch flint spearhead. 
He did not remember what he did with the stone slabs of the coffin 
or with the bones. Digging at the point indicated by Mr. Cox as 
the location of the above-described burials in mound No. 2 revealed 
no trace of the bones or the stone slabs of the coffin. 
“This burial of several bodies in one coffin on the present surface of 
mound No. 2 was an intrusive burial made by the later rectangular 
stone-slab graye band on the mound, which had been built by the 
earlier flexed-burial people. 
These later rectangular stone-slab grave people appear to be closely 
related to the similar rectangular stone-slab grave people whose re- 
mains were found at Gordon town site and elsewhere in the Central 
Tennessee Basin. As has already been stated, thousands of graves 
of a similar people have been found scattered through the Cumber- 
land Valley in middle Tennessee. 
POTTERY OF GORDON AND FEWKES SITES 
A careful study of the many hundreds of pottery fragments 
unearthed on the Gordon and Fewkes sites brings out some needed 
information in regard to the size, material, and colors of their domestic 
pottery. 
There were some staple domestic pots whose use was common 
to all of the tribes. These had much the same shape in all the south- 
ern tribes, but the materials differed with the resources of the locali- 
ties. A comparison of the pottery shown in the preceding pages will 
bring out an apparent difference in some, but not all, of the vessels. 
The following table is based on a study of all the recovered fragments 
and will show some of the differences in materials and colors. 
Per cent 
Colors and materials 
Gordon Fewkes 
Various shades of black and gray clay mixed with powdered 
mussel shells Nhardiburmed =.S2 2. - > ep eee oe es 30 25 
Various shades of cream and buff-colored slips on a gray paste 
mixed with powdered mussel shells; hard burned_________ 15 15 
Various shades of cream and buff-colored slips on buff-colored 
clay paste mixed with powdered mussel shells; well burned_ 40 25 
Various shades of red slips on gray paste mixed with powdered 
mussel.shells, hard) bumediesee a_i o  fuan ee 8 5 20 
Various shades of cream and buff-colored slips on a yellowish 
light gray paste containing no mussel shells; not well 
burned. =_ ===. =v] 2 eee! BS os gees eee A ee 5 10 
Othericolorsithaniaboves= se pon ee eee 5 5 
Total. sy9ye-ysett -sidadere- felenett ctl fegal 100 100 
