342 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
siderable areas, and it is clear that the bones were burnt and calcined, not by 
the direct use of fire, but through contact with the heated clay placed upon 
them. This use of burnt clay in connection with burial rites is interestingly 
shown in connection with Burial No. 62, at the Citico Place, above Chattanooga, 
deseribed in this report. 
We shall now take up the description of each burial found in Mound A, 
prefaeing the account with the statement that the entire deposit of red clay 
above the burials, and the burials themselves, were carefully removed with 
trowels, and that no account is taken of various scattered bones present in the 
mound, which did not seem of sufficient importance to be designated as burials. 
All burials not otherwise described showed the effects of heat to a greater or less 
extent. The reader will bear in mind that burials are of adults unless otherwise 
stated. As the plan clearly shows, the burials headed in all directions. 
Burial No. 1, a child, lay outside the burial layer connected with the red- 
dened clay and had been let down into a grave which cut through the upper 
layer of burnt earth. This burial, of course, showed no trace of the effect of 
heat. 
Burial No. 2, a child, under the same conditions as the preceding one, had a 
hatchet of indurated shale, 6.2 inches long, at the left hand. 
Burial No. 3, an infant in a grave like the others, having a few shell beads 
at the neck and, resting on the skull, what had been a handsome ornament of 
sheet-copper, representing an eagle. 
Burial No. 4, a child, also in a grave apart from fire, having at the head an 
urn-shaped vessel of coarse ware, undecorated, of a capacity of about one quart. 
Burial No. 5 lay extended on the back, the left arm and forearm along the 
body, the right forearm flexed back to the upper arm, which was somewhat away 
from the trunk. 
Burial No. 6, on the back, the legs slightly flexed to the right. 
Burial No. 7, closely flexed, face down, the knees slightly to the left. Charred 
fabric and beads of shell were at the pelvis. These beads, like all found in this 
mound, are in excellent condition, blackened by heat but not otherwise injured 
by it. 
Burial No. 8, closely flexed on the right. Under the skull had been a mat 
made of reeds, and a flint knife 8.4 inches in length. 
Burial No. 9, closely flexed to the left. The skull of this burial, which pre- 
sumably had been in small fragments, probably had been thrown out in making 
one of the original trial-holes. 
Burial No. 10, closely flexed on the left, one of the burials described as showing 
no trace of fire. At the skull was a chisel of indurated shale, 4.1 inches in length. 
At the feet was a small arrowpoint of flint. 
Burial No. 11, closely flexed on the left. At the knee was a hatchet 5 inches 
in length, which was presented to Mr. Bennett, the owner of the property. 
Burial No. 12, closely flexed on the right. Except on part of the trunk, 
the reddened clay was absent from this burial. 
