274 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 23, a skeleton extended on the back, in a grave similar to others 
in the mound, had, beyond its feet, a mass of pure clay extending across the 
grave. 
Fra. 45.— Burial No. 19, a skeleton on the bottom of a grave-pit. The grave was 5 feet 8 inches 
long and 1 foot 9 inches wide. The bones were covered with a layer of pure clay, as shown. Lime- 
stone creek, Ala. 
Burials Nos. 24 and 25, a grave 2 feet 3 inches long by 1 foot 8 inches wide, 
reaching 2 feet 2 inches below the base, contained the bones of an adult and of a 
child in no order whatever. With this burial were four shell beads, one, one 
inch in length, the other three each about .4 inch long. "There were also two 
sections of columella, one, .75 inch in length, bored at both ends but without 
