254 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
PERIWINKLE HILL, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
At the upper entrance to Musselshoals canal is a large shell deposit called 
Periwinkle Hill (locally “Pennywinkle”) belonging to Mr. T. J. Thornton, 
living some distance back. The “hill,” 12.5 feet in height and 128 feet by 168 
feet diameters of base, is flat on top, probably through cultivation. As the 
“hill” was planted over at the time of our visit, no investigation was attempted. 
DwELLING-SITE ON THE WEAVER PLACE, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
On the Weaver Place, of which Dr. L. A. Weaver, of Lamb’s Ferry, Ala., 
is the owner, is a slight rise in a cultivated field, 155 feet by 215 feet, in view 
from the river. This rise, of dark soil having a sprinkling of shell on the surface, 
is markedly distinct from the ground around it, which is of much lighter shade 
and has no debris upon it. Trial-holes showed a considerable proportion of 
shell mingled with the soil and reached undisturbed earth about 3 feet 8 inches 
from the surface. Three burials were found, two of which had a single pebble 
each, of circular outline, which probably took the place of discoidal stones. A 
number of rude knives were met with on the surface and in the soil. 
MOUND on Tick ISLAND," LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
On Tick Island, of which Mr. R. N. Harris, of Florence, Ala., is the owner, 
isa sand mound about onemile from the upper end of the island, near its north- 
ern side, in sight from the water, did not trees intervene. The mound, about 
circular as to its base, has a diameter of 60 feet; its height, taken from the out- 
side, around which depressions made it difficult to do with accuracy, was slightly 
more than 6 feet. 
From the northern side of the mound is an extension 34 feet long to where 
it joins the mound, and 44 feet in width. This extension does not slope upward 
to the top of the mound, but joins it about midway, where its height is 3 feet. 
There had been some previous digging in this mound, but the holes had 
been of inconsiderable size and comparatively shallow. An excavation by us, 
14 feet square, came to light-yellow sand at a depth of 5.5 feet, differing con- 
siderably from the darker sand of the mound, and though the digging was carried 
to a depth of 7 feet and to 8 feet in places, no distinct basal line was seen. Pre- 
sumably the different colored sand was the underlying soil. 
Burial No. 1, disturbed fragments of bones near the surface. 
Burial No. 2, 14 inches down, remains of a skull and a femur lying together. 
With these was a mass of galena (lead sulphide) about the size of a woman’s 
fist, rounded as by grinding, and two vessels of very inferior ware, as were all 
from this mound, one an undecorated pot, the other belonging to a class found 
in northern Alabama, of which we are showing numerous examples (Fig. 32). 
1 To avoid confusion it may be well to say that a mound on Tick Island, Florida, has been in- 
vestigated and described by us. 
