318 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
proved to belong to the same class as the one described from this place, and 
also has its decoration on the convex side; half of an undecorated gorget of shell 
found with the other; a part of a good-sized bowl, restored and shown in Fig. 61, 
found in fragments just below the surface and 
bearing a decoration often seen on earthenware 
farther south in Alabama; a sherd bearing a com- 
plicated stamp design (Fig. 62); a number of flint 
arrowheads and knives similar to those found on 
the surface; hoes wrought from musselshells, hav- 
ing each a perforation for a handle; an amulet of 
the bar variety, of impure hematite, having two 
perforations; a dise of copper with indentations 
around the margin, with opposite sides bent over 
in a way that one overlaps the other; a graceful 
celt of voleanie rock,somewhat more than 4 inches 
Fic. 62.—Pottery with compli- in length; red ochre pigment; arrow flakers of ant- 
MP xag icd the ler that had been set in handles, which, however, 
were not found. 
'The ridge west of the mound is of brown loam, the dark, midden soil, such 
as was present on the opposite side, being absent. "There was almost no midden 
debris on the surface, except broken shells, and these were on only limited areas. 
Some digging was done in this part of the ridge, but though shells were mingled 
with the soil, showing aboriginal agency in the deposits, no burials were encount- 
ered. 
This site, which evidently is pre-Columbian, or in all events dates from a 
period when the region had no intercourse with white people, has a considerable 
history as to human bones plowed up and artifacts discovered. We were in- 
formed by Mr. Cameron, the owner, that from the ridge where we dug, a bicave 
stone “as large as a saucer” had been taken, and we obtained from him a cere- 
monial axe of the hoe-shaped pattern, which he informed us had been found 
on the place. 
MOUNDS ON THE RUDDER PLACE, JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
On property of Mr. Hugh Rudder, who lives somewhat back toward the 
hills, is a mound in sight from the river-bank, rectangular with a flat top, 13 
feet high and 100 feet by 114 feet diameters of base. Two holes of considerable 
size were in the summit-plateau, but did not seem to have been deeply dug. 
Within a few yards of this mound is the remnant of another, 2 or 3 feet in 
height, which, like the field from which it rises, was planted in wheat at the 
time of our visit. Permission not granted. 
