210 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
shell, and at the feet were several badly-decayed, piercing implements of bone, 
close together. 
Burial No. 8, a stone box-grave 2.5 feet from its top to the surface, oblong, 
3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 1 inch, a single slab at each side and at each end, the cover- 
ing being a double thickness of slabs in places, smaller ones having been arranged 
Fic. 12.— Burial No. 8. Stone box-grave, З feet 9 inches by 2 feet 1 inch, Swallow Bluff Island, 
Tenn. 
over gaps between parts of the larger, under ones. In this grave the covering 
slabs presumably had been held up in part by supports, perhaps of wood, and had 
not been placed squarely across the grave. Consequently, when these supports 
had decayed, some of the covering slabs had fallen to a slanting position, as shown 
in the photographie reproduction (Fig. 12). 
This grave, 3 feet 3 inches long by 1 foot 8 inches wide, inside measurement, | 
contained a skeleton, partly flexed, the trunk on the back, the knees drawn up 
