216 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
illustration (Fig. 18). The head, which would have been directed S., owing to 
lack of space had been pushed over on the chest. 
Burial No. 14, a carefully-made cist, its top 3.5 feet below the surface, 4 feet 
by 3 feet 1 inch in size. The sides consisted of single slabs, double slabs being at 
the head of the grave while the foot was made up of one slab of fair size, a small 
Fig. 18.—Burial No. 13, showing skeleton, some of the slabs having been removed from the grave. 
Swallow Bluff Island, Tenn. 
one filling a space at a corner. The covering, which was level, was made up of 
three large slabs, resting on which were four smaller ones covering open places. 
The grave, 3.5 feet by 2.5 feet and 1 foot 2 inches deep, inside measurement, 
contained a skeleton partly flexed on the right, the head directed S. The skull of 
this burial was saved. 
Burial No. 15, unenclosed, 3 feet 9 inches deep, closely flexed to the right, the 
head SSE.: 
