ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 217 
Burial No. 16, unenclosed, 13 inches below the surface, partly flexed to the 
right, the head SSE. At the left of the skull was a pot having two loop handles, 
and at the right another with loop handles and an encircling row of knobs around 
the body. At the right shoulder was the shell of a tortoise or of a turtle, with 
which no pebbles were found. At the outer side of the right humerus was a 
vessel having two loop handles and a rude, incised decoration. All these vessels 
were small, more fitted for interment with a child than with an adult, and were 
of the most inferior quality of ware. 
Burial No. 17, two feet four inches down, the bones of a young child, un- 
enclosed. 
Burial No. 18, a stone grave slightly more than 3 feet in length and 16 inches 
in width, about .5 foot below the surface, the sides and ends composed of upright 
slabs in single thickness, a space 10 inches in width unfilled at one side. The top, 
perfectly flat, was made up of two slabs and a fragment to cover the space where 
they failed to meet. There was a small opening, however, uncovered at one 
corner. 
This grave, interiorly 34 inches by 13 inches and 9 inches deep, was irregularly 
oblong, being somewhat wider at the foot than at the opposite end, owing to the 
greater size of a covering slab. It contained an infant's skeleton, the head S. by 
Burial No. 19, a few feet from Burial No. 18 and at the same depth, but at a 
right angle to it, was a grave 28 inches by 20 inches. "This grave was not a com- 
plete enelosure, spaces being at one of the sides, though the top was almost 
entirely covered. At the bottom of the grave, whose inside measurements were 
2 feet by 17 inches by 1 foot in depth, were the bones of an infant, the head 
directed E. 
Burial No. 20, a grave having the sides pentagonal, the top roughly oval, 
made up of two slabs having upon them three small ones covering spaces. This 
grave, 23 inches by 17 inches, is shown in Fig. 19. | 
The inside measurements of this little stone grave were: length, 18 inches; 
width, 13 inches; depth, 9 inches. Within it lay the skeleton of an infant which, 
notwithstanding its diminutive size, had the legs flexed, a necessity imposed by 
the restricted quarters. One end of the grave, not as wide as the opposite end, 
was formed of two slabs meeting at an angle and contained the lower part of the 
skeleton. 
A eurious feature connected with this mound, which was plainly a domiciliary 
one, having burials in its summit-plateau (which, as we know, is sometimes the 
case with this class of mounds), was that no burials were encountered in the cen- 
tral part of the plateau, all being marginal, and especially numerous at the four 
eorners. Did we not know the aborigines sometimes buried under their dwell- 
ings, we might feel assured the center of the plateau had been the site of a wig- 
wam and that burials had been made round it, and such, in this partieular 
instance, may have been the case. 
18 JOURN. A. М. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
