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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 205 
About one foot above and beyond the feet of Burial No. 13, together, were 
fourteen flakes of flint, the largest 3 by 2.5 inches, the smallest 1.25 inch by .75 
inch. Both this deposit and the one last mentioned may well have been in the 
midden debris, having no connection with the burials. 
MOUND NEAR WEST SuiPP's LANDING, BENTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 
About one-half mile above West Shipp's Landing, within a few feet from the 
river bank, on property belonging to Mr. H. D. Odle, of Camden, Tenn., is a 
mound quadrangular with rounded corners, having a flat summit-plateau. "The 
basal diameters are 107 feet and 74 feet. "The height as measured by us was 6.5 
feet, but as the surrounding field is of loamy sand (as is most of the mound) and 
has been subject to much wash, it was impossible to determine what the original 
level of the ground had been. Neither sounding-rod nor trial-holes led to the 
discovery of any interment in this mound. 
DWELLING-SITE AT LEADBETTER LANDING, BENTON Co., TENNESSEE. 
At Leadbetter Landing, on property of the Ayer and Lord Tie Co., Chicago, 
Ill., of which Mr. J. B. Lord is president, is a dwelling-site of inconsiderable size, 
on the bank of the river, the higher part of which is covered by a large store- 
house. At the time of the building of this structure skeletal remains were dis- 
interred, the discovery creating considerable local excitement. 
Extensive digging was done in the earthen floor of the building, in ground 
just adjoining it on the outside, and in a continuation of the site in a cultivated 
field nearby, though there, apparently, burials were widely apart. 
In all, eleven skeletons were encountered, seven of adults, four of infants or 
of older children. 
Of the adults, one was extended on the back; two were closely flexed on the 
right; one, closely flexed on the left; one, partly flexed to the right; one, partly 
flexed on the left. One had been disturbed in aboriginal times. There had been 
no attempt at orientation of burials at this place. Five crania were preserved, 
though some were considerably crushed. 
With the skeleton of a child were 151 beads of shell, some discoidal, some 
almost globular, the largest having a diameter of .65 inch. А skeleton at full 
length on the back had at the neck beads made from the ocean shell Marginella. 
Alongside this skeleton, beginning at the pelvis and continuing down, the 
head directed in the same way as that of the burial near which it was, lay the 
skeleton of a child at whose neck were beads, some of shell, small and of the ordi- 
nary kind, others made from Marginella. 
MOUNDS OPPOSITE THE MOUTH oF CEDAR CREEK, DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 
Landing opposite the mouth of Cedar Creek (which is on the other side of the 
river and in another county) and proceeding about one-half mile westwardly to 
the first high ground, one reaches, on property of Mr. T. S. Hassell, of Clifton, 
