TENNESSEE. 



351 



EAST TENNESSEE. 

 SULLIVAN COUNTY. 



M()UNM>S I IN HOLSTOX RIVER. 



There are two mounds on Holstou river about 10 miles east of Bristol. 

 In Fig. 2:50 a plat and section of the area on which they are located are 

 given. In the plat (A) No. 1 is the monnd on tlie north side of the 

 river; No. 2, the mound on the south side. xVt B is shown a section 

 running northwest and southeast through the mounds (1 and 2) on the 

 upper level, othe lower level or river bottom, and 4 the river. 



Mound No. 1, which is on the north side of the river, was found when 



B 



Fio. 230 — Pl;tu of mouDds ou tho Holstou river, SuUivau county, Teunesaee. 



measured to be 22 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, circular in form, 

 and composed of red clay and sand. 



Kestiug on the original surface of the ground near the center was a 

 stone vault shaped somewhat like a beehive. It was constructed en- 

 tirely of watcrworu bowlders and arched over the top by shortening 

 and drawing in the courses. In this was a single sitting skeleton. It 

 was evident that the body, or more likely the skeleton, had been set 

 down in this place and the vault built around it. Lying on the head 

 was the long cop])er spindle shown in Fig. 231. It is 11 inches long, 

 one fourth of an inch in diameter at the thickest part, and appears 

 to have been roughly hammered out of native copper with some rude 

 implement. Immediately under the lower Jaw were two small copper 

 drills or awls with portions of the deer-horn handles still attached to 

 them; near the head a small pile of flint chips and by the knees a long 



