ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 335 
Dwelling-site on Grant Island, Blount County. 
Dwelling-site on Cox Island, Knox County. 
Dwelling-site on Prater Island, Knox County. 
Mound and Site on the Jackson Place, Blount County. 
Dwelling-site near Little River Shoals, Knox County. 
Mound opposite Looney Island, Knox County. 
Mound near Knoxville. 
DWELLING-SITE ON Burns ISLAND, MARION COUNTY. 
Burns Island, belonging to Mr. Leroy Peoples, has upon it two rises on 
which are frame structures, and a dwelling-site with much shell upon it. Per- 
mission not granted. 
MOUND AND DWELLING-SITE AT THE MOUTH ОЕ SEQUATCHIE CREEK, MARION 
COUNTY. 
On the lower side of Sequatchie creek, at its union with Tennessee river, is a 
large property belonging to Mr. W. 8. Wilson, who resides somewhat back from 
it on the hills. 
In full view from the river is a mound to some extent on sloping ground, 
so that measurement of height depends on whence it is taken. It would be 
safe to call the height of the mound 20 feet, approximately. This mound, 
doubtless domiciliary and quadrangular with a flat top in the past, at the time 
of our visit was of very irregular outline through eultivation of its sides and 
through wash. Its basal diameters were 205 feet and 185 feet. 
In the hope of coming upon superficial burials, trial-holes were sunk in the 
summit-plateau, but with the exception of one, where a few fragments of human 
bones were encountered, nothing was found, and all the holes soon reached 
raw clay in which burials could hardly be expected. 
The dwelling-site, most elevated near the river, extends for a considerable 
distance along the bank at varying widths to, or almost to, Sequatchie creek, 
the ending of the site being apparently about in line with the mound, which 
stands somewhat farther back from the river. 
On the surface of the site were many fragments of shell and some of stone 
and of pottery, a number of bits of the latter having the check-stamp by way of 
decoration. Complete artifacts were almost absent, and even fragmentary 
ones were extremely scarce, a few arrowheads or knives being the only unbroken 
objects gathered superficially. Careful search over all the surface of the site 
came upon no human bones, nor could we learn of any history of the discovery 
of burials or of artifacts by those cultivating the place. 
Two days’ digging with eight men at work at this site failed to discover a 
cemetery, all the slight rises being carefully examined to no purpose. 
The midden debris on this property extended deeper than is usually the case 
in sites of this kind, some of our trial-holes going between 7 and 8 feet without 
