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It lay at the depth of 3 feet, the head turned towards the southeast ; with 

 it were four arrowheads, several shell heads, and many small fragments 

 of pottery ; most of the latter about the head. Quite a number of skele- 

 tons were subsequently exposed by the high water and others in the 

 process of digging a road through the grounds. 



The burial grouiul, on which many broken stone axes, arrow points, 

 aud other stone implements have been found, but which has been pretty 



Fig. 234. — Plat shuwiiig aucient graves near Kiiigaport, TciiuesMei-. 



thoroughly worked over, is about one mile and a half below old Fort 

 Watauga, mentioued by Haywood as the Watauga settlement. It is 

 now on the farm of Mr. John S. Thonuis and near the house where John 

 Sevier and Tipton had their fight over the " State of Franklin." 

 On Gap creek, about 4 miles ft'om the fort, are two caves in a rocky 



