ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 251 
MOUND AND DWELLING-SITES ON SEVEN MILE ISLAND, LAUDERDALE 
County, ALABAMA. 
Seven Mile Island, whose length is nearly that implied by its name, abreast 
of the town of Sheffield, Ala., as to its upper extremity, belongs to Mr. F. M. 
Perry, of Florence, Ala., who kindly placed it at our disposal for investigation. 
About one-half mile from the lower end of the island is a small dwelling-site 
in a cultivated field, distinguished by much darker soil than that of the rest of 
the field, and having a few shells and fragments of flint on the surface. Burials 
probably had been made in this site, and in fact a single human tibia was un- 
earthed, but an investigation that was far from exhaustive, however, shells 
closely packed retarding the work, failed to find any. 
About 2.5 miles from the head of the island, near its northern side, is a mound 
having little shape at present but seemingly one of the domiciliary class, 11 
feet in height, the base being about 110 feet square. The mound is completely 
covered by a large barn and its adjuncts. 
A few yards NE. from this mound, which stands in a cultivated field, is a 
slight rise having no shells on the surface or interiorly. A few fragments of 
flint, however, lay upon the ground. 
Fifteen trial-holes which reached undisturbed clay at a depth of from 2 to 
3 feet, variously, came upon two burials, one of which, about 10 inches down, 
badly decayed, evidently had been at full length. 
The other burial, at a depth of 2.5 feet, had but little left. Near a few frag- 
ments of bone were several arrowheads, and in the soil which had been thrown 
out were others, all presumably having been in a deposit with 
a burial, with which also had been a mass of pure clay about 
the size of a woman’s fist. 
These arrowpoints, twenty in all, delicately made, all trian- 
gular, except one which, differing in shape from the others, is 
shown in Fig. 30, ranging between 1.1 inch and 1.7 inch in 
length, are of flint variously pink, light brown, gray, red. : Wet 
About one-half mile from the head of the island is a small hf es viii 
dwelling-site distinguished by a slight rise above the general Mile Island, Ala. 
level and by the presence of scattered shells on the surface. (Full size.) 
On this rise was a number of frame struetures covering much 
ofit. Some digging where space could be found reached a skull at a depth of 16 
inches and a skeleton of a child somewhat deeper. A number of rude knive s of 
flint were found in the soil apart from burials. 
MOUND NEAR FLORENCE, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
The town of Florence is about one mile from the river. A short distance 
from the landing and beside the road leading to town isa mound in a cultivated 
field belonging to Mr. George P. Jones, of Florence. This mound, the largest 
