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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 285 
In this rise and in the wigwam sites, found separately, were eight knives 
and arrowheads of flint, two of the latter being small and triangular. 
The lower part of the ridge presented neither wigwam sites nor elevations. 
It was tentatively dug by us, but no sign of former occupancy was apparent, 
even the surface being without debris. 
Fic. 49.—Ceremonial axe. McKee Island, Ala. (Full size.) 
The pottery from this entire site, with one exception, was of coarse, inferior 
ware, some sherds showing tempering with shell and a small proportion of gravel 
together. Other sherds had been tempered with what appeared to be small 
masses of limestone, which react to acid and which are not fragments of shell, 
their shape being distinctly different. 
DWELLING-SITE ON THE SEIBOLD PLACE, MARSHALL COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
Also belonging to Mr. T. B. Seibold is an aboriginal site in a large field on 
the second river level, on the mainland opposite McKee Island. This site has 
been plowed away to a large extent, and little remained to mark it save much 
debris on the surface and a stone grave. "This grave, whose upper surface was 
visible in the field, consisted of masses of rock and water-worn boulders, some 
double the size of a man's head, many much smaller, thrown together without 
much attention, two and three deep. This arrangement of stone, oval in out- 
line, 7 feet 7 inches long and 5 feet 7 inches in maximum width, had been placed 
over a skeleton lying on the base of a grave extending 15 inches into undisturbed, 
underlying clay. The skeleton, however, which was at full length on the back, 
was not in line with the major axis of the oval, but diagonal to it, the skull being 
toward the side of the greater end of the oval, the body extending down, the 
feet near the smaller end. It was impossible to determine the original depth 
of this grave, so much had been removed from the surface of the field by cul- 
