248 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Six feet down, below the slope, was a grave 3 feet 7 inches long by 17 inches 
wide, made through the midden deposit and extending one foot into the undis- 
turbed, underlying clay. Absolutely nothing was found in this grave, which 
undoubtedly had been that of a child, possibly an infant. 
Immediately on the yellow or underlying clay, 5 feet 10 inches deep at this 
part of the mound, was a layer of red clay, 30 inches long by 1 foot in width and 
2 inches thick, which probably marked a grave that had been put down through 
the midden soil above. Under the deposit of clay was a small amount of dark 
material, possibly the remains of a burial, and four small, copper beads. 
Eight feet seven inches deep, extending 2 feet into the undisturbed yellow 
clay, was a grave 9 feet long and 28 inches wide, in which the skeleton that 
undoubtedly had occupied it had entirely disappeared through decay. On 
the base of the grave was a mass of lead sulphide larger than a man's fist, and 
at one end was a mass of clay. 
MOUND B. 
Mound B (from which Mound C was but a few yards distant) is in the 
same great site as Mound A and also the property of Mr. J. T. Reeder, and is 
about one-half mile SE. by S. from Mound A. The mound, which has been 
cultivated over for a long period and largely plowed down had, at the time of 
our visit, a height of 3.5 feet and diameters of 60 feet and 50 feet, but as the 
material plowed from the mound had been spread around it, its height, taken 
from the outside, was considerably less than the distance from the summit 
to the interior base, while, no doubt, the diameters of the mound were much 
less before it was plowed over than at present. 
A hole 16 feet square was sunk in the central part of this mound. Two and 
2.5 feet down, respectively, were eighteen masses of galena and twelve masses 
of the same material, mostly small. 
At a depth of slightly more than 3 feet had been a burial, though no trace 
of bones remained. This burial, which was not in a grave dug for it, but lay 
in the body of the mound surrounded by the material of which the mound was 
composed, had been covered by a layer of pure clay, nearly 5 feet long and from 
18 to 22 inches in width. This layer, 2 inches thick as a rule, increased to 7.5 
inches in thickness at one end. On the bottom of the grave, surrounded by the 
clay, was a mass of galena 3 inches by 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches, smoothed in 
places by rubbing. | 
Four feet down were traces of a skull which may have been interred alone, 
though it is possible that the remainder of the skeleton, badly deeayed, had been 
dug away unnoticed by our men, since the remains did not lie in a grave, which 
would serve as a guide to those digging, but lay in the material composing the 
mound, without mixture. 
Having its southeastern corner but a short distance from what we considered 
to be the center of the base, was a grave 10 feet 5 inches long and about 5 feet 
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