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MOUND EXPLORATIONS 



4 feet in hoiglit, and was composed througliout of red clay, scattered 

 through which were gravel aud small stones and a few fragments of 

 human bones. 



Mounds Nos. 1 and 3are on opposite sldesof the creek, each on ahigh 

 ridge. No. 1, about the same size as No. 2, had been explored. No. 3, 

 46 feet in diameter and 3J feet high, was thoroughly excavated. Like 



No. 2, it consisted 

 wholly of red clay. 

 At the depth of 1 

 foot was a skeleton 

 lying with head 

 to the south and 

 much decayed. 

 At the liead a 

 fine steatite pipe. 

 Nothing else was 

 found. 



Lowerdownthe 

 river, near the 

 line between 

 Jackson's farm 

 and the land ot 

 the Lenoir Manu- 

 facturing Com- 

 pany, is the group 

 represented in 

 Fig. 275. The fol- 

 lowing is a sum- 

 mary of the re- 

 sults of the exploration made here. The letters a, h, c, d mark the 

 points on the river from which courses and distances to the mounds 

 were taken to form the plat, which is drawn to a scale, 1 — ISOOO. 



FlQ. 275. — Mouuds on ,Tohn Jackson'a farm. Lonilou county. Tennessee. 



Composition. 



Reel clay . 

 ...do .... 



...In .... 

 ...(1.) .... 



.do . 

 .do . 

 -do. 

 .do . 



Remarks. 



Noitlier skeletons imr rrlios. 



Four skeletons nt bnttoiu ; im ic'Hos. 



Til e:icli a few fnijinients of Immaii Inmes; 

 notliTiij; elae. 



Four skeletons at tlie bottom ; no relies. 

 A few human bones at the ])ot.tom. 



A few moutids of this group bad been i>revioxisly explored by other 

 parties. This is Ko, 17, PI. xxv. 



