202 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
An excavation 12 feet by 20 feet was sunk by us about midway of the length 
of the mound, the longer axis of the hole corresponding to that of the mound, 
which proved to be composed of a loamy clay. The base was reached at a depth 
of 9 feet 10 inches, our outside measurement having been taken where there had 
been considerable wash on the field and in eonsequence the height of the mound 
there was greater than its original height. On the opposite, or western side, the 
apparent height was even greater, as one there would be looking up a slope. 
» Burials were found as follows: 
Burial No. 1, at a depth of 6.5 feet, disconnected bones having belonged to one 
individual, a heel-bone below the skull, the lower jaw away from the ealvarium, 
the long-bones out of place. These bones, in 
common with all from this mound, were much 
decayed. 
Burial No. 2, 7.5 feet down, disarranged 
bones including two skulls, not piled as in a 
bunched burial but spread. А layer of clay of 
a much purer grade than the material of which 
the mound was made, lay under Burial No. 1, 
and in part over Burial No. 2, which also had 
clay under it. Layers of this kind were found 
elsewhere in the mound apart from bones, which 
probably had decayed away. 
Burial No. 3, 8 feet 6 inches deep, disarranged 
bones belonging to one skeleton. 
Burial No. 4, at about the same depth as 
Burial No. 3, consisted of mingled bones having 
belonged to one individual. 
Burial No. 5, on the base of the mound, rest- 
ing on charcoal or decayed bark and wood, was 
a scattered deposit of mingled bones covering 
$ considerable space, having belonged to at least 
LL. M we seventeen individuals, that number of skulls 
Fo d Pha ovine pene DUE represented. This burial did not lie in a 
of slabs. Dixie Landing, Tenn. grave, apparently, or if in one, its depth must . 
have been inconsiderable, as undisturbed local 
layers lay above the burial to a considerable distance in the mound. 
Burial No. 6, on the base, part of a child's tibia. 
Burial No. 7, seven inches above the base, scattered bones belonging to one 
skeleton. 
The entire base of the excavation was carefully spaded through in the hope of 
coming upon a grave-pit or a ceremonial deposit, but without success. 
A few feet from the side of the northeastern end of the mound was a slight 
rise above the level at that place, about 24 feet in diameter, showing up red in the 
