310 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 9. In a pit 22 inches deep was a skeleton closely flexed on the 
right, having at the wrist marine shells (Olivella) used as beads. The skeleton 
lay within an arrangement of masses and slabs of claystone, somewhat resembling 
a horseshoe, about 3 feet 2 inches long and 2.5 feet across the opening, outside 
measurement, as shown in Fig. 57. Of the skeleton there were exposed the 
lower half of the trunk, the lower extremities except the knees, and the upper 
extremities except proximal parts of the humeri, and the right forearm. 
Fie, 58.— Burial No. 12, A placement of masses of rock, 4 feet 2 inches long and 2 feet 4 inches 
in maximum width, covering the skeletons of two children, Garland’s Ferry, Ala. 
When the large slab which formed part of the horseshoe had been removed, 
the entire skeleton was exposed and it was seen that it lay between four masses 
of rock on one side and one long mass on the other side, having behind it a smaller 
mass that did not contribute to the length of the side. Evidently, then, the 
bones had been placed in an enclosure open at both ends, the sides of which 
acted as supports for the large slab placed horizontally over the upper part 
of the skeleton. 
Burial No. 12 was in a pit 2 feet 10 inches deep and included an arrangement 
