ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 189 
dug into for many years and recently has been in part plowed over. Groups of 
slabs lately plowed up were seen by us on the field and other slabs lay in the 
adjoining woods. Careful prodding by us all over the ground failed to come upon 
stone graves. "There is no history of artifaets having been found in the graves 
at this place. 
MOUNDS ON THE Henson PLACE, MARSHALL County, KENTUCKY. 
On property belonging to Mr. W. A. Henson, who lives upon it, are a number 
of mounds which may be reached from the river by going in from the mouth of 
Jonathan creek, about one mile in a southerly direction, though the distance by 
the road is somewhat greater. We were informed by Mr. Henson that these 
mounds, all of which had been under cultivation for a long time (the Henson 
property having been in the family for one hundred years), had no history of 
discovery of artifacts or bones. 
A short distance from the road, near together, are two mounds, the larger 
of which, with flat top, very irregular in outline owing to cultivation, is 11 feet 
6 inches in height. Its length is 265 feet. Measurements of width would vary 
considerably; one taken near the middle of the mound gave 142 feet. The 
smaller mound, also with flat top, evidently had been quadrangular. Its height 
is 8 feet 6 inches; its basal diameters, 118 and 128 feet. Farther back in the field, 
but in full view from the mounds just described, is another which has lost much 
in height through cultivation, as shown by denuded roots of trees upon it. Its 
height is 5 feet 6 inches; its basal diameters, 110 feet and 180 feet. Other rises 
in the field have been largely plowed away. As these mounds, in our opinion, 
had been domiciliary, they were not accorded a thorough investigation. Trial- 
holes made in them yielded no positive result. 
Near the two larger mounds, but across the road, in woods, are five or six 
humps or knolls, each from 3 to 4 feet in height and about 40 feet in diameter of 
base. These small mounds had been much dug into, some having five or six 
holes, left presumably by treasure-seekers. We were informed that human bones 
had been found by diggers some time ago, and in our investigation, which cov- 
ered about all parts left of the mounds, we came upon the remains of a stone 
grave, though no other evidence of burial in the mounds was encountered. 
MOUND NEAR Barrett Ferry, STEWART County, TENNESSEE. 
On property belonging to Mr. William Vinson, who lives upon it, is a mound 
in a cultivated field, about one-half mile NNW. from Barrett Ferry Landing. 
According to Mr. Vinson, this mound has been plowed over for nearly seventy- 
five years, and so far as he knows, nothing in the way of bones or artifacts has 
been taken from it, though the mound has been greatly reduced in height during 
cultivation. The mound, which no doubt is greatly spread, is roughly circular 
as to the base, the present diameter being about 100 feet. The height is 4.5 feet. 
Our investigation showed this mound to have had fireplaces at various levels, 
but yielded neither bone nor artifact. 
