328 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 7, 4 feet 9 inches below the slope of the mound, was a bed of 
thin slabs, closely laid in a double layer, 5 feet 6 inches long by 3 feet wide, 
completely protecting a skeleton partly flexed on the right, which rested im- 
mediately below. Over the lower part of the skeleton and the covering of slabs, 
and somewhat above the latter, were several masses of rock in the soil, separate 
and without arrangement. The right humerus of the skeleton lay under the 
thorax, somewhat forward, the forearm partly flexed, bringing the hand to the 
right knee, the left upper arm extended downward in front of the thorax, the 
forearm being at a right angle back on the trunk, not forward as one would 
expect it to be. Back of the skull was a bone pin, much decayed, that probably 
had been in the hair. 
Burials Nos. 8, 14, 15, a child and two younger children, respectively, in 
shallow graves extending down from the surface of the mound, the bones covered 
with deposits of musselshells, above which to the surface were musselshells mingled 
with earth. 
Burial No. 13, a grave-pit 5.5 feet deep, 3.5 feet by slightly more than 2 feet, 
was clearly traceable from, or almost from, the surface of the mound, extending 
9 inches into undisturbed clay below the base. This pit contained a skeleton 
lying closely flexed on the right. | 
Burial No. 17, the skeleton of a child lying near the surface, doubtless in a 
grave but having no musselshells in association. 
Burial No. 21, a pit clearly defined, at the bottom of which, 3.5 feet down, 
was a skeleton lying closely flexed on the left, the pit being filled with soil and 
musselshells mingled 
Burial No. 25. This burial was of a class to be described later in this report 
in connection with the Hampton Place, Hamilton County, Tenn., where burials, 
closely flexed, were placed almost vertically in narrow pits, the pelvis at the 
bottom of the pit, the arms and legs flexed against the trunk. 
Burial No. 27, 2 feet 8 inches below the sloping surface of the mound, be- 
ginning about 7 feet from the center, was a bed of slabs of limestone, 4 feet 7 
inches by 3 feet 4 inches, not level as was the placement of slabs with Burial 
No. 7, but having an irregular surface. There seemed in this case, moreover, 
to be a tendency toward the enclosed burial as found in the stone box-graves, 
inasmuch as, in addition to the bed of slabs, there were an upright slab at the 
head of the bed of horizontal slabs, and another, also vertical, at the side to the 
left of the slabs but at a short distance from them. Opposite this one had been 
placed a narrow slab and a mass in such manner that the part of the placement 
containing the upper portion of the skeleton was surrounded to some extent. 
The skeleton lay on its left side, the left femur closely flexed on the trunk, 
the tibia flexed against the thigh. "The right femur was flexed to about a right 
angle with the body, the tibia closely flexed; the right arm and foream extended 
diagonally down and forward, the hand being below the left knee; the left arm 
and forearm were directed in line along the front of the trunk. 
