214 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
box-grave, the sides and ends upright, the covering slabs resting squarely on them. 
This grave, oblong, 3 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 5 inches, had the sides and ends of 
single slabs, except at one point where there were two slabs. Surrounding the 
grave small gaps had been filled with slabs of inconsiderable size; other unim- 
portant spaces had been left uncovered. The top was composed of three large 
slabs forming a single layer, the one at the lower end of the grave, however, having 
another slab upon it, forming a double layer at this place (Fig. 15). 
Fra. 16.— Burial No. 12, showing the skeleton, part of the grave having been removed. Swallow 
Bluff Island, Tenn. 
The inside measurements of this grave were 3 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 8 inches. 
Its depth was 1 foot 1 inch. The considerable difference in width between the 
inside and the outside measurements (the latter taken over all), is accounted for 
by the projecting ends of the covering slabs. 
In the grave, partly flexed to the right, as shown in Fig. 16, representing the 
grave after removal of certain slabs, was a skeleton, the head directed E. by N. 
Burial No. 13, a stone grave, the sides and ends forming an oblong and having 
a covering oval in outline made up chiefly of one great slab, diamond shaped, its 
four corners resting on the central parts of the sides and the ends of the grave 
