308 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
kind of bracelet. At the feet was a deposit of eight small, triangular arrowheads 
of flint, all pointing in the same direction. | 
Three feet from the surface, forming almost an oval 2 feet by 1 foot 2 inches, 
had been arranged a slab of quartzite about half covering one of limestone. 
Below these slabs no burial was found. 
Objects apart from burials were: a rude, undecorated pot near a fireplace; 
several small knives of flint; a small drill of the same material; a diminutive 
boss of impure sheet-silver, centrally perforated; an undecorated bowl about 
6 inches in diameter, inverted; a barrel 50 inches in length, having belonged to a 
flint-lock firearm. This barrel had a smooth bore and was of iron, not of steel. 
No remnant of the stock remained, nor was the lock present, and it is possible 
that the barrel, which was only 1.5 foot below the surface, may not have formed 
part of the aboriginal deposit. The jaw of a black bear came from midden 
debris at this site. 
DWELLING-SITES NEAR GARLAND’S FERRY, JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
On property belonging to Mrs. Hattie Garland, of Scotsboro, Ala., are three 
small dwelling-sites in cultivated land, and two others, much smaller, which 
were not investigated. 
A few yards from the river and about 50 yards SW. from where it is joined 
by a channel draining rain-water from the hills, is a cireular patch covered with 
fragments of shell and having a small proportion of other midden debris. Its 
diameter is about 35 feet. On the surface lay four slabs which the tenant oc- 
cupying the property informed us he had struck with a plow and, upon removing 
them, had uncovered a skeleton. 
Twelve burials were found in this slight rise—ten of adults, two of children, 
one burial including two children. "These burials were of the usual flexed var- 
ieties, including a number of disturbed bones, and as a rule lay on the original 
surface, having over them only about one foot of earth, though no doubt con- 
siderably more had covered them prior to the cultivation of the field. Several, 
however, lay in pits, one of which was 3 feet deep. 
Burial No. 2, a child, closely flexed on the right, had a mass of stone which 
had been placed in the ground diagonally in a way to cover the pelvis and the 
lower extremities, which were drawn up, as of necessity in a closely-flexed burial. 
A smaller mass of stone was above the upper part of the skull, the lower portion 
of which, as well as the trunk, being unprotected. 
A short distance from the skull was what may have been a ceremonial group 
of masses of stone, consisting of five in contact. Beneath them was a thin 
layer of clay, slightly reddened by heat but not baked, and a small amount of 
charcoal. No bones lay beneath this arrangement of stone. 
Burial No. 3, the skeleton of a child in a shallow pit, the bottom of which 
was 26 inches from the surface. Covering the flexed body and extremities and 
part of the skull were two slabs a short distance apart, the space between them 
