324 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER 
Three feet from the top of the mound lay masses of stone and slabs with 
spaces between. Above these, here and there, in no evident order, were masses 
of stone. No disturbance was apparent and no burial was present. 
Apart from bones were found, in Mound B, a small piercing implement of 
bone; a rude, triangular arrowhead of flint; a coarse, cutting implement of sand- 
stone; part of an earthenware pipe. 
MOUNDS NEAR WILLIAMS LANDING, JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA. 
There are four mounds and a shell-heap on the property of Judge J. J. Williams 
who lives upon it, somewhat back in the hills. 
MOUND A. 
The steamboat landing on this estate is known as Williams Landing, other- 
wise Lone Oak Landing. About three-eighths of a mile N. from this landing, 
on the crest of a low hill rising from bottom-land, was a symmetrical mound 
in woods, overlooking the river, 6.5 feet in height and 45 feet in diameter of its 
circular base. Around it was a trench, almost filled at the time of our visit, 
whence came the raw clay and pebbles of which the mound mainly was com- 
posed. In the center of the summit was asmall hole which proved to have been 
carried down but a short distance. Around its margin were masses of stone 
which evidently had been taken from the mound. 
Two feet four inches from the top was a bed of slabs (such as we tested were 
of limestone), 6 feet 9 inches in length by 4 feet 7 inches in width, somewhat 
disturbed by the previous digging. When found, this placement had an irregular 
outline; it was composed of slabs in double thickness in places, and of single 
slabs and masses of rock in others, while in some parts no slabs or masses were 
present. 
On this had rested a burial, fragments of which, disturbed by the former 
digging, remained. 
Four feet eight inches down, beyond any chance of disarrangement by the 
previous diggers, were a few fragments of human bones. 
Near the center of the base, which could be distinguished because at that 
point ended the slight stratification that prevailed in the mound and red clay 
of uniform shade began, lay the bones of a child closely flexed to the right, 
flattened to an extent almost to resemble the skeleton of a fossil fish. Directly 
on these bones slabs had been placed, and above these again were masses of stone 
piled irregularly, not in contact but surrounded by earth. 
Almost contiguous to this burial, at the same level, lay a skeleton closely 
flexed on the right, having the humeri partly in front of the thorax and the arms 
closely flexed, bringing the hands up in front to the face. The thighs and tibiæ, 
as in the case of a closely flexed burial, were drawn up parallel to the body. 
Back of the skull and behind the pelvis were two small masses of stone, and 
somewhat in front of each of these masses, as if possibly they had been intended 
