220 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
had erushed, others with one edge down and the opposite side still remaining on 
the supporting slabs. The top slabs had been irregularly placed, overlapping, 
some in double thickness, some three deep. 
This grave, somewhat larger than it had been originally, no doubt, owing to 
the outward slant of the supporting slabs, was 6 feet 10 inches in length and 3 feet 
4 inches in width. On the bottom of the grave, which was without slabs, was a 
skeleton extended at full length on the back, the head directed ENE. The grave, 
inside measurement, was 5 feet 9 inches in length and slightly more than 2 feet in 
width; its depth, one foot. The astragalus and the scaphoid of the right foot 
lay half-way to the knee, though the other foot-bones and the bones of the left 
foot were in place. 
Artifacts with this burial were not of a gratifying kind. At the right of the 
skull, concave side up, was a sherd, 10 inches by 7 inches, which had formed part 
of a large cooking vessel. At the outer side of the left knee had been an upright 
vessel with encircling knobs below the rim, now decaying and broken. 
Burial No. 6. This burial, that of a young child, lay about 2 feet down 
protected by a single slab of stone which lay over it diagonally. Presumably the 
body had been placed in the bottom of the excavation and the slab had been 
arranged above it, the upper part leaning against the side of the grave. Two small 
fragments of stone near the skeleton may have had some connection with the 
burial, perhaps may have fallen from the protecting slab. 
MOUND at OLD CALLENS’ LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
At Old Callens’ Landing (the present landing being somewhat farther up the 
river), immediately on the river’s bank and apparently having suffered to some 
extent from wash on the side nearest the water, is a mound having a flat top with 
numerous trees upon it. This mound, 8 feet 6 inches in height, is on the property 
of Messrs. Callens Brothers, of Cerro Gordo, Tenn. The diameter of the base 
parallel to the river is 106 feet. The present width of the base is 56 feet. The 
sides do not face the cardinal points. 
The mound, of clay with some admixture of loam in the upper parts, was not 
sufficiently soft for the use of the rod. Тһе summit-plateau was tested with 
trial-holes in all directions, but without success. 
MOUND NEAR DickEvy's LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
On the estate of Mr. J. S. Dickey, whose home is upon it, is a mound having 
a flat top which, as well as the sides, evidently has been plowed over for a long 
time, as the mound has no regular outline. It is situated in a cultivated field 
about one-half mile NE. from Dickey’s Landing. Its height is 11 feet; its diam- 
eters of base, 145 feet and 95 feet. Neither it nor the surrounding area has any 
history of discoveries of artifacts or bones, though, of course, before the time of tus 
present generation, aboriginal graves may have been discovered there. 
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