ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 27: 
perforation, and asomewhat shorter section in which no boring had been attempt- 
ed. With these also were five sections of the body-whorl of a large marine 
shell, and a pendant from the body-whorl of a similar shell, somewhat less than 
3 inches in length, having a groove for suspension at one end and a part broken 
from the other extremity. 
Burial No. 29. This skeleton, extended on the back, lay well out from the 
center of the mound and beyond our original excavation, at the bottom of a 
grave 8 feet 7 inches in length and 2 feet wide at the base, where it expanded 
slightly. From the surface of the slope of the mound to the bottom of the 
grave was 10 feet 10 inches, the pit extending 6 feet 10 
inches below the base. Well up in the grave lay a skull, and 
other bones were scattered around, showing this deep grave 
had cut through one or more graves which had preceded it. 
The burial at the bottom of this grave was covered with a 
layer of light-colored clay having a maximum thickness of 5 
inches. On the upper surface of this layer was the skeleton 
of a child about 8 years of age, the head in the same direc- 
tion as that of the skeleton beneath. 
With several parts of skeletons in this mound, aboriginal 
disturbances, were masses of pure clay. 
Apart from bones, singly, were found eight arrowheads or 
knives, of flint, all with stems, some barbed, two serrated. ^ qq 46. Armow- 
One of these latter was of interest from the fact that part of head of flint, show- 
its pointed end having split away, the remainder had been ing secondary work. 
E . : : Limestone Creek 
serrated along the ine of fracture to continue the point in ү. (Full size.) 
use (Fig. 46). 
There was also in the mound, probably in the midden debris, the jaw of a dog. 
All over the field in which the mound was, but in increased numbers in its 
vicinity, were quantities of pebbles and fragments of stone, much of which was 
flint, also arrowheads or knives in considerable numbers, some complete, many 
broken. In addition were picked up at this site a muller of limestone, a celt 
of claystone, and several rude implements of flint. The arrowheads from this 
place do not include any small, triangular ones, and as a rule are stemmed, some- 
times barbed and, with one or two exceptions, exhibit little evidence of careful 
workmanship. 
On the upper side of Limestone creek where it joins Tennessee river, in view 
from the waters of both, is an earthwork in the form of a four-pointed star sur- 
rounded by a ditch. This earthwork, which the older inhabitants remember 
to have been thrown up in the Civil War, has deceived the uninformed, who 
have dug into it extensively. 
DWELLING-SITE ON THE HOPPER PLACE, MADISON COUNTY ALABAMA. 
Opposite Bluff City, on property belonging to Mr. W. M. Hopper, who 
lives somewhat back toward the hills, is a large field bordering the river, having 
