ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 273 
In addition to several burials on the base of the mound, ten graves extended 
below the base, three of which contained two burials each. The following 
interments present features of interest in connection with their method of burial 
or had artifacts with them. 
Burial No. 6, an aboriginal disturbance having enough remaining to show 
the body had been at full length on the back. On the pelvis, its long axis cor- 
responding with that of the body, was an agricultural tool of shale, 1.5 foot in 
length, neatly rounded at both ends, which were 5.25 and 3 inches in width, 
respectively, the greater width being ground to a fairly sharp edge 
Burial No. 15, the skeleton of a child, lying at the bottom of a grave 3 feet 
long and 1 foot 10 inches wide, 6 feet from the surface, the grave extending 
1 foot 4 inches below the base. At the neck were two thick, discoidal beads of 
copper. 
Burial No. 16, a skeleton extended on the back, the bones of the left forearm 
missing. Corresponding bones of a left forearm, doubtless the missing ones, 
were in the soil about one foot above the burial, which lay at the bottom of a 
pit extending about 2 feet below the base, 8 feet long and 1 foot 10 inches wide. 
In the grave, beyond the head and the feet, respectively, were single masses of 
pure clay. In front of the face, which was turned to the right, was a knife or 
lancehead of flint, 2.8 inches in length. Beyond the skull was a celt of indurated 
shale, 9.1 inches long. To the left of the pelvis lay a mass of galena, somewhat 
smaller than a man’s fist. 
Burial No. 18. About the center of the base of the mound and in contact 
with Burial No. 19, with whose grave No. 18 formed a right angle, was a skeleton 
extended on the back in a grave distinct in the red, undisturbed clay (as were 
all the graves in this mound), 7 feet long by 2 feet 4 inches in width and extending 
2 feet below the base. At the head was a mass of pure clay, and four small 
bits of galena lay together at the right of the pelvis. 
Burial No. 19, the skeleton of an adolescent, lay at full length on the back 
at the bottom of a grave-pit 5 feet 8 inches long by 1 foot 9 inches in width at 
the end in which the head of the skeleton lay, the foot end of the grave being 
1 foot 5 inches across. This pit extended 1 foot 4 inches below the base of the 
mound. 
Immediately on the skeleton and in contact with the limits of the grave 
on all sides, was a layer of pure, light yellow clay from 2 to 3 inches in thickness, 
which contrasted markedly with the dark clay of the soil around it, as shown 
in the illustration (Fig. 45), where the parallelogram is clearly noticeable. At 
the neck of the skeleton were a few shell beads, badly decayed. 
Burial No. 20, a skeleton at full length on the back, in a grave 6 feet 4 inches 
long by 1 foot 5 inches wide and extending 2 feet below the base, had a mass of 
clay at the head and another at the feet. In the same grave, its skull 6 inches 
above the knees of Burial No. 20, was the skeleton of a child (Burial No. 21) 
lying in reverse direction to the burial beneath. 
25 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
