188 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
openings, other openings remained, and through these soil had entered the 
grave. 
This grave, without slabs at the base, was covered in double thickness, the 
upper layer being composed of five slabs, and four fragments to aet as stop-gaps, 
the under layer having four slabs and three fragments. On one side were three 
large slabs, while the opposite side was made up of seven smaller slabs and four 
fragments. At each end was a single slab. | 
In part of a grave which had been left by previous diggers who were said to 
have been treasure-seekers and whose methods of search were not such as 
investigators employ, was a group of five mushroom-shaped objects of earthen- 
Fic. 5. — Trowel of earthenware. Mound near Ellis Creek, Kentucky. (Full size.) 
ware, of a kind now believed to have served as tools in the making of pottery 
vessels, and which are described and figured by Jones,! Thruston,? and Holmes. 
One of these tools, whose handle terminates in a rude representation of an 
animal’s head, is shown in Fig. 5. With these tools, the largest of which is 4.8 
inches in diameter and 2.75 inches in height, was an object of indurated clay, 
somewhat resembling a semilunar knife in shape, though its capacity for cutting 
must have been limited. 
CEMETERY NEAR THE STAR Lime Works, Lyon County, KENTUCKY. 
On high ground immediately back of the Star Lime Works, formerly in woods 
but now partly in cleared ground, in property belonging to Mr. Crit Nickell, 
living nearby, are the remains of a small stone-grave cemetery which has been 
1 Ор. cit., p. 143. 
? Op. cit., р. 161 et seg., Fig. 65. 
3 20th An. Rep. Bur. Am. Ethn., p. 99 et seq., and Pl. XXXV. 
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