ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 193 
On our second visit we were less exacting, and in one instance, at least, enjoyed 
better fortune. 
Among the wreckage of graves, all near the surface, we came upon the following 
stone box-grave burials worthy of description, besides a number of others which 
were too badly disturbed to merit it. 
Burial No. 20, a beautiful little box-grave 3 feet 1 inch long, 1 foot 8 inches 
wide, and 10 inches in height, outside measurement. This little grave, which 
extended NE. by E. and SW. by W., had been constructed of slabs of sandstone 
Fra. 6.—Burial No. 20. Stone box-grave of a child, 3 feet 1 inch by 1 foot 8 inches. Т. J. Gray 
Place, Tenn. 
and of claystone in one and two thicknesses, small masses having been placed 
here and there to cover every opening so that no part of the grave was unprotected. 
Among the smaller stop-gaps were two water-worn bowlders of silicious material, 
each about the size of a man’s foot. This interesting grave, which we show in 
Figs. 6, 7, intact and as it appeared after the removal of the covering slabs, had 
an inside measurement of 2 feet 5 inches by 10 inches, by 9.5 inches in depth, and 
possessed a flooring of slabs, as did all the entire graves investigated by us at the 
time of our second visit. The child’s bones that doubtless once rested in this 
grave presumably had long since decayed away. 
Burials Nos. 21 and 22, two graves parallel throughout, about one foot apart, 
each 7 feet long and 2 feet 3 inches wide, approximately. The tops had been 
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