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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



lyinj; at full length with the head northwest. In the vessel, near the 

 heatl of the .skeleton, was the stone image represented iu Fig. 240. 

 This, wiiieh represents a squatting Hgure, is lih inches high and is 

 carved out of stone. At each of the points marked h, h, /(, /(, corre- 

 sponding with the cardinal points, was a sitting skeleton fiicing toward 

 the center. With the one at the north was a clay pii)e and two dis- 

 coidal stones; lying by the feet of the one at the east was a large 

 shell, and with the one at the south were two i)olished celts, one of 

 which was broken. 



Mound 5, nearest the lower point of the island and within 50 feet of 

 the water's edge and of the ordinary conical form, measured (iO feet in 

 diameter and 5 feet high, the highest point being toward one side. 



One foot from the top was a layer 

 !r" of burnt clay from 3 to 4 inches 



thick, spreading horizontally 

 over the entire area of the 

 mound, reaching the surface all 

 around. It did not conform to 

 the curve of tlie mound, but 

 extended horizontally. At sev- 

 eral points on its surface, or 

 mixed with it, were small piles 

 or spots of charcoal and ashes. 

 The body of the mound, both 

 above and below this layer, con- 

 sisted of dark, sandy soil. 



In the central portion, close 

 to the bottom, lay the remains 

 of four skeletons, but so far de- 

 composedthatit was impossible 

 to determine their positions. 

 Jlound 11, as will be seen by 

 leference to Fig. 238, is one of group r, situatt^d on the higher ground. 

 Diameter, 05 feet ; height, a little over 7 feet. This, as proved to be the 

 ease with all those on the high ground examined, was eomjwsed entirely 

 of very hard, compact, red clay. 



About the center, at the depth of '2h feet, was a badly decayed skel- 

 eton which must have been doubled up or bundled. There was no dark 

 colored earth about the Itones, as is usually the case, the red clay being 

 jiacked about them as hard as in any other portion of the mound. Di- 

 rectly under this, but at the bottom of the mound, resting on the natu- 

 ral surface of the ground, were two other skeletons lying at full length, 

 side by side, with heads toward the west. The bones of these were in 

 a much better state of preservation than of the one nearer the top. With 

 them was some red i)aint and near their heads one spear point and two 

 small discoidal stones. The earth immediately surrounding these two 



Fig 2:i!t.— l)iaKr;iiii uT inouiid No. :i, Liiua island, 

 Roane coniitv, Tt'iiiicssce. 



