ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 311 
of masses of stone, 4 feet 2 inches in length; maximum width, at one end, 2 feet 
4 inches; at the other end, 1 foot 9 inches. This arrangement (shown in Fig. 58) 
had its upper surface 1 foot 6 inches below the level of the site. 
Lying transversely under the wider end was the skeleton of a child four or 
five years of age, closely flexed on the right side, covered by the largest pair 
of masses and the adjacent stone at the end. 
At a slightly lower level than the other burial, which was somewhat above 
that of the bottom of the pit, was the skeleton of a child about 6 years of age, 
partly flexed on the right side and covered by the remainder of the masses of 
stone. 
An interesting feature in connection with this burial is that five of the masses, 
all of sandstone, are water-worn boulders and all are more or less pitted, probably 
by the cracking of nuts, none having more than four pits on one side. Some 
of these masses also had concave surfaces caused by use as mortars. 
One hundred and fifty yards W. from the other site, in the same field, was 
one of about equal size, having, however, much more shell in its soil. In this 
site were found seven burials: three of adults, two of adolescents, two of children. 
With the exeeption of an adult burial at full length face down, the adults and 
adolescents lay in ordinary forms of flexion. 
Burial No. 14. The arrangement of this grave was symmetrical, consisting 
as it did of practically three sides of a square formed by masses of stone arranged 
side by side, having, however, a few small masses curving in a purposeless way, 
apparently, from one end of an open side. 
This equilateral area, about 3 feet in diameter, without covering of any 
kind, contained a skeleton lying partly flexed to the left, the head, curiously 
enough, according to our ideas, being at the open end and projecting somewhat 
beyond it. Near the face was a mass of bright red pigment (hematite). 
With the exception of a small space left open in one of the sides, the stones 
forming them were practically contiguous and included an interesting feature. 
The grave next to be described had been made previous to the one under de- 
scription and had been reached in digging to prepare for Burial No. 14, whose 
makers had utilized that part of the grave discovered that could be made to fit 
into one of the sides of their enclosure. 
Burial No. 15, an elongate pile of stones over the bones of a child. 
Burial No. 17 lay flexed on the left side beneath 8 inches of the shell material 
composing the site. Above this lay two slabs, one over the lower part of the 
trunk, the other above the feet of the skeleton. The upper surface of the slabs 
was covered by 18 inches of shell material to the surface. 
One hundred yards NE. by N. from the union of the watercourse with the 
river, but on the opposite side of it, still on property belonging to Mrs. Garland, 
was a site similar in appearance to the others and of about the same size, having 
upon it a pile of masses and slabs of stone, about 2.5 feet in height and 3 feet in 
diameter, which had been plowed up and piled in the cultivation of the field. 
In this site careful digging reached five flexed burials of adults. 
