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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 197 
About 75 yards SW. from Mound B was a mound (C) having a square base 
and a square summit-plateau. Its height was 5 feet; the diameter of the base, 
45 feet, and that of the summit-plateau, 17 feet. 
Just back of Mound A, a few feet apart, in line, are two small mounds, that 
nearest Mound A having a height of 3 feet and a basal diameter of 34 feet. The 
other mound is 30 feet in diameter of base and 1 foot 8 inches in height. 
In that side of Mound A which was highest on the slope, a trench 18.5 feet 
long by 8 feet in width was dug, beginning somewhat in from the margin and 
including the central part of the mound. From the outer end of this trench a 
narrow one was dug to the apparent margin along the yellow, underlying soil. 
The mound was composed of the surface soil of the hill, sometimes almost 
without masses of rock, sometimes with a mingling of angular, silicious masses 
such as one sees on the surface of the hill, few larger than the head of a man, most 
much smaller. In places also masses of rock were piled together almost without 
admixture of clay, and these masses, by pouring out from the side of the excava- 
tion into the space at the inner end of the trench, which had been greatly enlarged 
by us, seriously impeded our work. In fact it became evident that unless the 
mound was investigated with the aid of a larger force of men than was at our 
disposal, or that far more time was allotted to it than was at our command, exact 
data could not be obtained, much of the stone deposit requiring removal by hand. 
The investigation strongly indicated that the actual height of the mound was 
considerably in excess of that determined by us from the part highest on the slope, 
for besides the likelihood of getting a minimum altitude from such a base, digging 
showed later that made-ground to a depth of about 3 feet was present on that 
side of the mound, probably a kind of extension the presence of which would 
decrease the height of the mound at that part to correspond with the depth of 
the extension. 
Seemingly the mound had been built largely of masses of rock, having clay 
and clay with a mingling of rock exteriorly and sometimes in layers in the body 
of the mound. What we believed to have been the original surface of the hill 
was reached at a depth of 11.5 feet. 
Burials had been made in this mound, possibly throughout it. In our central 
digging they were found lying among the masses of rock about 10 feet 7 inches 
from the summit of the mound, about one foot above the base. This burial 
contained bones of at least three individuals, two adults and an adolescent. The 
parts of the skeletons were not in order and were spread over considerable space. 
Possibly the burial included more individuals than we have stated, as before the 
bones were entirely removed an inpouring of masses of rock in a rather threatening 
way prevented further investigation at that point. 
In the extension at one side of the mound, to which we have referred, just 
under the slope of the mound, the trench put down by us, passing through clay 
without masses of rock, reached a burial having mingled bones, including two 
skulls of adults, at a depth of 3 feet 9 inches. With these bones were two conch 
