ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 229 
central excavation, though one of two smaller holes, which were made on each 
side of the main excavation, came upon two bottles near together, about 1.5 foot 
below the surface, having, however, no human remains in association. One of 
the bottles (Fig. 22), with a slender neck expanding toward the mouth, had 
been covered with red pigment, much of which had disappeared. The ware is 
fairly good, and, in conjunction with the grace of its form, seemed to promise 
earthenware of more artistic design and manufacture than we had so far found 
on Tennessee river. The other bottle, with a broad neck, is undecorated and 
of inferior ware. 
Mr. MeGee, the owner of the property, informed us that recently a stone 
grave had been plowed up near the mound, and our digging in the surrounding 
field came upon a slab of limestone a few inches below the surface, near which 
was part of a human humerus. Presumably a stone grave had formerly been 
at this place. 
About one-half mile westerly from the mound is a field about eleven aeres 
in extent, so thickly covered with fragments of flint-wasters, flakes, chippings, 
and parts of pointed and edged implements—that one could not walk without 
covering a number of them at each step. But little in the way of fragments of 
pottery could be seen, and complete points or other implements were rare. Mr. 
McGee informed us that in the past many arrow- and spear-points had lain on 
the surface, but these had been broken by the plow or carried away. We heard 
from another source that persons living nearby had searched the field for imple- 
ments and that an employe on a fleet of dredgeboats which had been quartered 
on the river nearby had acted as a collector for a dealer in antiquities. 
A number of trial-holes were put down in a small rise in the field, one of which 
came upon a slab of limestone 8 inches from the surface, beneath which were the 
bones of the upper extremities and the upper part of the thorax of a human skele- 
ton—no doubt the remainder of a stone grave. 
There were also found remains of a skeleton, unenclosed, so badly decayed 
that the form of burial could not be determined, and two skeletons in very poor 
condition, both extended on the back, one heading SE., the other ESE. 
Apart from bones were found a sheet of mica about 6 inches by 5 inches, and 
a slab of limestone, no doubt having belonged to a stone grave. 
There can be little doubt that stone graves were at this place in the past, 
but whether of the box-grave variety or not, we are unable to say. 
DWELLING-SITE NEAR Pickwick LANDING, HARDIN County, TENNESSEE. 
On property of Mr. T. J. Fields is what is generally supposed to be a mound, 
about one mile SE. of Pickwick Landing, on the right-hand side of the river, 
going up. Careful examination based upon digging showed this elevation, which 
is about 11 feet high and 82 feet by 110 feet in basal diameters to be a natural 
formation. = 
In the neighborhood of this elevation has been an extensive, aboriginal 
