232 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Twenty-eight inches down lay mere traces of bones, and at about the same level, 
but some distance away, were the remains of two femora and two tibiz, not in 
order but lying side by side and having the remains of a skull at one end. 
Twenty-two inches from the surface were two slabs and a mass of sandstone 
not in contact, the slabs being about 4 inches apart and the mass 5 inches from 
them. Altogether they covered a space 14 inches by 34 inches. On these frag- 
ments of rock were traces of bones, presumably all that remained of a burial 
which had lain on this placement of stone. 
Apart from burials were found a mass of galena, and a graceful arrowhead or 
lancepoint of flint, slightly more than 3 inches in length, having a conspicuously 
long stem and similar to one figured by Thruston! as coming from Tennessee. 
It is also a Missouri form.? 
One-quarter mile WSW. from the mound just described is another, also in 
woods and of the same ownership, into which previous diggers had run a trench 
a yard in width, from the margin to the central part, broadening somewhat 
there. The height of the mound was 4.5 feet; the diameter of its circular base, 
38 feet. 
An excavation 16 feet square was put down through the light-yellow clay of 
the mound to what seemed to be the base, about 5 feet from the summit, where 
compact clay, darker in shade and soon merging into red, was encountered. On 
this hillside it was evident no dwelling place had been, so no midden debris was 
present between the undisturbed clay and the body of the mound. 
Near the surface was a slab of limestone under which were a human pelvis 
and the upper parts of two femora, evidently the remainder of a burial which 
had been cut away by the previous digging, at the edge of which these remains 
were found. Slightly more than one foot down and at a depth of 4 feet, re- 
spectively, were traces of bones. 
About 3 feet down was a fireplace on which clay used in making the mound 
had been thrown. This clay had been somewhat discolored by the heat. 
About 9.5 feet from the center of the mound, 2 feet 4 inches down, under the 
slope, were two slabs, one of sandstone, the other of limestone, and a mass of 
cherty material, arranged rudely in the form of a horizontal triangle with an 
altitude of 2 feet 7 inches and 2 feet across the base, which was composed of a 
slab and a mass side by side, the remaining slab forming the apex of the triangle. 
Three other slabs were in the soil somewhat above the grave, separated, without 
arrangement, apparently not directly connected with it. 
Under this triangle of stone was a burial of an adolescent rather closely 
flexed on the right, the bones, even the ribs, retaining their shape but crumbling 
somewhat on removal. With the exception of the pelvis, which protruded, 
and of small parts left unprotected where the slabs and the mass were not in 
contact, the skeleton was completely covered by the stones. 
+ Op. cit., Plate XI. 
? Gerard Fowke, “Prehistoric Objects Classified and Described,’ Plate X, Bulletin 1, Missouri 
Historical Society, Department of Archeology. 
