194 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
plowed away. "These graves ran easterly and westerly and extended across the 
narrow rise in the field in which the stone graves were, as did all the graves found 
by us on this second visit, the skeletons in them, where any traces remained, 
having the heads at the western end. The two burials under description, like 
all determined by us at this place, had been at full length on the back. 
Fic. 7.— Burial No. 20, the covering of the grave removed. The skeleton had disappeared through 
decay. Т. J. Gray Place, Tenn. 
Burials Nos. 23, 24, 25, 26. These four box-graves in a group had, with one 
exception, lost their covers by contact with the plow. Two of them, 6 inches 
apart, were parallel throughout. Two other graves, in line with the former 
ones, were not side by side to their full extent, an end of each projecting beyond 
the corresponding end of the other. Burial No. 23, the one shown in Fig. 8, 
was 7 feet 10 inches long by 2 feet 8 inches wide, its inside measurements being 
5 feet 10 inches by 1 foot 6 inches, by 11 inches in depth. The foot-stone of this 
grave seemed to have been in common with a grave extending in line from it. 
The bones in these four graves, though traceable throughout, were badly decayed. 
Burial No. 27, a skeleton represented by fragments, in a box-grave, as were 
or had been all at this place, 7 feet by 2 feet 6 inches over all, extending due E. and 
W. (Fig. 9). In the illustration it is interesting to note a slab placed above the 
others in order to cover a space otherwise left unprotected. "The inside meas- 
urement of this grave was 6.5 feet by 1 foot 7 inches, by 1 foot in depth. 
