ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 240 
in width, its base about 7 feet from the top of the mound, and extending 2 feet 
into undisturbed, underlying clay, its long axis in an E. by N. and W. by 8. 
direction. 
On the base of this grave presumably had been a burial or burials which had 
been covered in the main by a layer of pure clay and one of sand, the sand below 
the clay. "These layers began 19 inches from the eastern end of the grave, and 
outside them were the remains of a skull on the base of the grave, the only human 
remains found in it. The layer of clay, which had been symmetrically placed 
in the grave, with a view to the distance between its sides and its ends and those 
of the grave, had a length of 6 feet 9 inches and a width of 2 feet 7 inches. Its 
maximum thickness was 5.5 inches. 
The layer of sand immediately below the clay apparently began with the 
clay at the eastern end and continued to the western end of the clay, having a 
maximum thickness midway of about one inch. 
Near the eastern extremity of the clay layer and surrounded by it was a 
mass of galena, smooth in places, about the size of a cocoanut, but of irregular 
outline, which must weigh more than twenty pounds. On the clay, in it and 
especially under it, where they were numerous, were small masses of galena, 
sometimes several together. 
MOUND C. 
Mound C, under cultivation at the time of our visit, is said to have been 
dug into considerably in the past, though but little sign of such digging was 
encountered Its height was 2.5 feet; its diameter, 45 feet. From the top to 
the base, however, was almost 4 feet. An excavation 10 feet square was put 
down, which later was much enlarged. 
About 15 inches down parts of a skull were found, near a previous digging. 
A grave 9.5 feet long by 1 foot 8 inches in width, extending 1 foot into under- 
lying clay, radiated from the center of the base NE. and SW., the southern 
end being nearest to it. 
Burial No. 1. On the bottom of this grave. the head at the SW. end, was 
a skeleton extended on the back. 
Burial No. 2. Having its feet resting on the pelvis of Burial No. 1 was 
another extended skeleton, without a skull, lying in a reverse direction. 
At each side of the extremities of these two burials was a lower extremity 
of an adult skeleton, the feet directed NE., the knees of the two skeletons and 
of the partial burial being all together and having on them a skull (probably 
that belonging to Burial No. 2) and below them a shell drinking-cup in fragments. 
A layer of clay covered the skeletons with the exception of the lower part 
of one femur, which protruded, and overlay the entire base of the grave with 
the exception of the terminal 9 inches at the NE. end. This layer was about 
4 inches thick, inereasing to about 5.5 inches at the NE. extremity. 
Burial No. 3. Beginning a short distance from the center of the base, its 
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