ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 337 
below the opening; a number of rude spades of limestone, the largest about 
10 inches in length; several flints with sharp points and cutting edges, the largest 
4.75 inches in length; several small flint knives and scrapers; half of a bar- 
amulet of limestone; an amulet of similar shape and material but without per- 
forations; several pebbles worked into the form of celts, one 5 inches long, and 
given unusually sharp cutting edges; a small triangular point of flint; a curious 
tool wrought from the antler of an elk, slightly more than 6 inches in length 
(Fig. 70). 
Fra. 70.—Implement of elk antler. Sequatchie creek, Tenn. (Full size.) 
DwELLING-SITES AT SHELLMOUND, Marion COUNTY. 
The name of this place is derived from a shell deposit formerly there, in or 
near which human bones and artifacts were found when the railroad, by laying 
its track, cleared away the shell-mound and adjoining area. The place, how- 
ever, had been dug into for relics since the time of the Civil War, and probably 
before. 
A short distance N. of W. from the railroad station, in a cultivated field 
along the railroad track, belonging to Mr. W. Y. Burnett, resident nearby, was 
a slight rise about 50 feet in diameter, on which were scattered fragments of 
shell and an occasional bit of stone. Considerable digging showed the soil 
to be dark with organic matter and having a considerable sprinkling of shells, 
the underlying, undisturbed ground being reached somewhat more than 2 feet 
from the surface. 
A single trial-hole resulted in finding four burials, two immediately above 
two others, one being partly flexed to the left, the skull of which was saved; 
two partly flexed to the right, one being the bones of an adolescent. The fourth 
skeleton was that of a child. Considerable digging in and near a neighboring 
shell deposit was without success. 
DWELLING-SITE NEAR RIGGLES FERRY, Marion COUNTY. 
On property of Mr. William Gowins, who lives upon it, are a number of 
dwelling-sites having little on the surface except shell, extending for half a mile 
down from the ferry in fields bordering the river. Careful digging showed 
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