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(which had been evenly dressed to afford a level support), leaving four corners of 
the top of the grave uncovered. These corners, however, had been carefully 
overlaid in double and treble thickness with small slabs whose rounded outlines, 
projecting over the corners in places, formed the oval outline of the entire cover- 
Fic. 17.—Burial No. 13. Stone box-grave, 3.5 feet by 2.5 feet, over all. Swallow Bluff Island, 
Tenn. 
ing, as shown in Fig. 17. The entire grave, which was 2 feet from the surface, 
measured 3.5 feet by 2.5 feet over all. 
On the bottom of the grave, whose inside measurements were 2 feet 8 inches 
bv 1 foot 5 inches and 1 foot 4 inches deep, was a skeleton of a young woman, the 
trunk on the back, the knees closely flexed toward the left and resting against the 
side of the grave, the bottom of which the trunk completely filled, as shown in the 
