ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 207 
Burial No. 6, a skeleton extended on the back, lying on the yellow clay which 
was but 6 inches deep at this place. The skull, if present, would have been 
directed S. by W., but a post or a tree, as indicated by a round hole which ex- 
tended considerably deeper than the grave, had destroyed the head. 
Burial No. 7, the skeleton of a child, just under the surface, had in line beside 
it seven earthenware vessels, as follows: over part of the skull and covering an 
upright bowl and a pot was an inverted bowl. In contact with this bowl, on the 
body of the child, was an inverted bowl having two small bowls, also inverted, 
side by side against it. In this bowl was a musselshell, somewhat broken, which 
no doubt had been used as a spoon. Over the pelvis of the skeleton had been 
placed an inverted bowl. 
All thisearthenware was shell-tempered and without line or painted decoration. 
Two of the vessels (all seven dropped to fragments on removal) had knobs below 
the rims, while one had a small extension, probably meant to represent the beak 
inarude shell-form. Between two of the vessels, upright, was a small, slender 
celt of indurated shale. 
Burial No. 8. This skeleton had been closely flexed on the right, the head 
pointing NE., but had been badly disarranged by Burials Nos. 4 and 5. 
Burial No. 9. Just beneath the surface, and somewhat disturbed by the 
plow, was a tiny stone grave let down into the undisturbed yellow clay. The 
top of the grave had been plowed away. This grave, not oblong, but with 
decidedly rounded corners, was constructed with the aid of eight slabs, some 
triangular, and placed with pointed ends downward. The floor consisted of three 
slabs, one comparatively small, used to fill an intervening space. The outside 
measurement of the grave was 21 inches by 14 inches; the inside measurement, 
17.5 inches by 10.5 inches. Within the grave were a few decaying bones of an 
infant, with which were a considerable number of small, barrel-shaped beads of 
shell. . 
Burials Nos. 10 and 11 were skeletons of children, one considerably disturbed 
by the interment of the other. Near one skull were ten barrel-shaped shell beads, 
each almost one inch in length. 
All the burials deseribed here were near together, though it is of course 
impossible to determine if the stone-grave burials were made at the same period 
as were those that were unenclosed. 
MOUND NEAR OLD FURNACE LANDING, DECATUR County, TENNESSEE. 
At Old Furnace Landing is a property belonging to Mr. W. A. Hassell, of 
Clifton, Tenn. A barn and other buildings are upon a low mound within sight 
from the landing. This mound, which is now about 2 feet high and 95 feet in 
diameter, approximately, has been trodden and trampled to such an extent by 
mules and horses that it is hard to say what its original dimensions were. We 
were unable to find any part of this mound where digging would not have been 
a decided injury to it. 
