320 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
of this layer were considerably fewer shells than were present in the other parts. 
In fact, the space in question was almost without them. 
At this place a burial had been made, presumably when the mound was in a 
period of growth but still was insignificant in height. In the ash material with- 
out shell a grave 7.5 feet long and about 26 inches in maximum width had been 
dug to a depth of 1 foot 7 inches. Next, into the grave had been placed shells 
: Fra. 63.—Burial No. 5. Not a box-grave but a placement of masses and slabs of stone, 7 feet 
9 inches by 2 feet 8 inches, piled over a burial. Widow's Creek, Ala. 
without admixture of foreign material, to a depth of about 7 inches, on which 
the body had been placed at full length on the back, arms along the sides of the 
trunk, and the space above and around had been filled with musselshells. Then 
above the burial had been piled a placement of slabs and masses variously of 
limestone, of sandstone, and seemingly of claystone, 7 feet 9 inches long and 
2 feet 8 inches in maximum width, which was at the foot of the grave (Fig. 63). 
This placement consisted of masses and slabs in double layer which sometimes 
