ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 290 
these mounds. Eight of these masses, the largest of which was 2.5 inches by 
2 inches by 1.5 inch, were somewhat scattered; the rest were in a group. 
With the same burial, probably, all together, were forty-eight small masses 
of galena and a reel-shaped ornament of sheet-copper having one of the arms 
corroded away. 
With another burial was a similar object, the sheet-copper being considerably 
thicker. In this one two perforations are present, the other being without 
them. A third reel-shaped ornament of hammered copper, without perforations, 
differed somewhat in shape from the others; like them it lay near human remains. 
The measurements of these objects, respectively, are: 3.2 inches by 3.6 inches; 
2.8 inches by 4.8 inches; 3.4 inches by 6.3 inches. 
Away from human remains were: two masses of galena found separately; 
a spike-shaped arrowhead, another with concave base, both of flint; a celt of 
indurated shale, 11 inches long and 2.4 inches in maximum width, which lay 
10 inches below the surfaee and may possibly have been placed with a burial, 
traces of which were not discovered. 
MOUND E. 
Mound E, evidently much spread by cultivation and reduced in height, 
had diameters of 40 feet and 50 feet, its height being 5 feet. A measurement 
taken later from the summit to the base gave the same result. 
A central excavation 20 feet square, whieh probably included most of the 
original mound, although burials were encountered to the very edge of the digging, 
was put down to the base. 
Twenty burials, often merely indicated, or represented by parts of a skull, 
lay in the mound, on its base, and in a few instances in graves extending below 
the base. 
A single mass of galena lay near each of two burials; in one instance a mass 
of pure elay had been interred near a skull. 
Burial No. 2, of which only a skull remained, had near it on one side an asym- 
metrical celt of indurated shale, 12.75 inches in length, and on the other side a 
mass of pure clay. 
Burial No. 6 had, near fragments of a skull and with traces of other bones, 
a rude discoidal of galena. 
Burial No. 7, a child, the only one noted in the mound, had at the neck a 
number of tubular beads of sheet-copper, badly decayed; another burial had a 
few similar beads. 
Burial No. 10, a grave 5 feet 10 inches from the surface, extending 1 foot 
below the base, 8 feet by 2 feet 10 inches in size, contained fragments of human 
bones indicating a burial at length. Near traces of the skull was a sheet of 
mica of irregular outline, about 5.5 inches by 5.75 inches, on which were two 
small masses of galena. | 
` Burial No. 16, fragments of a skull only, having beside it a rude agricultural 
tool of shale, 9.5 inches in length and 4.1 inches in maximum width. 
