298 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
MOUND C. 
Mound C, 7 feet 6 inches in height measured from the outside, though from 
the top to undisturbed clay at the center of the base it proved to be 6 feet 9 
inches, and with diameters of base of 43 feet and 73 feet, had its central part 
to the extent of 12 feet square dug out by us to the base. 
Traces of seven burials were encountered, none at a depth less than 5 feet 
2 inches. 
Three graves, each about 20 inches in width and ranging between 6 feet 
and 6 feet 9 inches in length were found, extending below the base to depths 
between 1 foot and 1.5 foot approximately, one grave being nearly central in it. 
In these graves were small fragments and faint traces of bones, in one in- 
stance indicating that a burial had been extended, as was probably the case 
with the other two. The burial in question, if our belief as to its position is 
correct, had a mass of galena at the pelvis and two others at the right of the skull. 
Here and there in the mound, apart from burials, were found: fragments 
of an ornament of sheet-copper; three separate masses of galena; thirteen small 
masses of lead sulphide in a deposit, the largest about 2 inches in diameter, of 
irregular shape. 
Мотхр D. 
This mound, 5 feet in height and 38 feet in diameter of its cireular base, 
was surrounded and completely dug down by us, the work being carried on at 
a level below that of the base, which proved to be 5 feet 7 inches below the sum- 
mit of the mound. 
No burial was encountered until a point 12 feet from the center had been 
reached. The burials found, thirteen in number, ranging in depth between 
2 feet 8 inches and 6 feet 10 inches, were so badly decayed that small fragments 
and mere traces only were observable. It is probable, so minute were some of 
the parts representing skeletons, that burials escaped our notice, though with 
these presumably no imperishable artifacts can have been. 
In two instances burials were found where it was evident skeletons had not 
been interred in anatomical order. In one case remains of a thigh-bone lay 
near fragments of a skull. In another were foot-bones beside the remains 
of a cranium. 
Several burials were on or near the base, two being in shallow graves below 
it, one of which we shall particularly describe. 
Burial No. 13, radiating from the center of the base of the mound, the head 
end directed from it, was very distinctly marked, the black material filling 
the grave contrasting with the bright underlying clay into which the grave 
had been dug to a depth of 1 foot 3 inches. Its shape was oblong; its length, 
6 feet 9 inches; its width, 23 inches. In the grave were found a skull in small 
fragments, teeth, a trace of bone here and there. 
With one burial, 32 inches deep, were fourteen masses of galena covered with 
a coating of lead carbonate (white lead, a paint), as was most of the galena from 
