300 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Several masses of galena were found separately in the mound apart from bones 
as were three arrowheads or knives of flint and a small and very rude celt of 
indurated shale, roughly chipped, without polish save at the cutting edge. 
Lying diagonally in the mound with the extremity of one of its arms at a 
level with the surface, was a reel-shaped ornament of sheet-copper about 4 
inches square, having two perforations. This ornament had been struck by a 
plow presumably, with a resultant bending of two of the arms. 
In earth that had been thrown out was found an oblong bead of sheet-copper, 
1.25 inch long, .5 inch in width, flat on two opposite sides. The bead had been 
shaped in the usual manner by overlapping the sheet-metal. 
MOUND Е. 
Mound F, seemingly three mounds or humps merged in part, had its maximum 
height and width, 4.5 feet and 65 feet, respectively, near the western extremity, 
whence it sloped downward, tapering considerably toward the eastern end. 
Its length was 170 feet. Cultivation had, no doubt, greatly changed its original 
proportions. 
In the highest hump, centrally, an excavation 25 feet by 29 feet was put 
down and carried below the base, showing the mound to be about the height . 
of its outside measurement. 
Twelve burials, affected to almost the last stage of decay, were encountered, 
as follows: 
Burial No. 1, the remains of a skull, 2 feet down. 
Burial No. 2, a skull in the body of the mound at a depth of 2 feet, having, 
where the neck would have been, two undecorated dises of shell, one about 2.5 
inches in diameter, the other somewhat smaller. These dises, which were 
badly decayed and in fragments, each had two perforations. "There was also 
near this skull a mass of pure clay. 
Burial No. 3, at the bottom of a grave 26 inches across and 40 inches in length, 
extending 16 inches into the undisturbed soil below the mound, was what decay 
had left of a sheet-copper, reel-shaped ornament, having two perforations. 
Below it, preserved by the copper salt, was a small fragment of a long-bone, 
all that remained of the skeleton which, judging from the size of the grave, had 
been that of a child. 
Burial No. 4. At the bottom of a grave similar to so many found at this 
place, were traces of a skull. Above the skeleton had been a thin deposit of 
pure clay. 
Burial No. 5, a grave apparently made by digging from the original surface 
of the site through 4 or 5 inches of midden deposit, which had been present at 
this part of it, to undisturbed clay. At the bottom of the grave a layer of pure, 
yellow sand, about .5 inch in depth, had been placed. On this the skeleton, 
if we may judge by the skull and faint traces of other bones indicating a skeleton 
at length, had been placed and over it had been deposited a layer of pure clay, 
varying in thickness between 1 and 3 inches. 
