ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 347 
some extent, by an aboriginal trench. At the neck of Burial No. 56 were shell 
beads. Burial No. 57 had, at the neck, a hatchet of indurated shale, 6.1 inches 
long, having a handle badly charred which extended under the upper part of 
the thorax. 
Burial No. 59, extended on the back. Resting on the pelvis was a vessel of 
coarse ware having a rude head, in fragments, which has been restored and 
proves to be a bottle of about the same kind as that found with Burial No. 77, 
this mound, shown in Fig. 76. The bottle from this burial has been sent to the 
United States National Museum (Accession 58442). 
Burial No. 60, a disturbance. 
Burial No. 61, extended on the back. Under this burial had been a mat 
such as has been described in connection with other burials in the mound. 
Fic. 74.—Gorget of shell. With Burial No. 75. Bennett Place, Tenn. (About full size.) 
Burials Nos. 62 and 63, children, the small skeletons considerably burnt. 
Burial No. 64, partly flexed on the left. 
Burial No. 65, partly flexed on the left. On the chest had been an ornament 
of sheet-copper reduced to small fragments when found. 
Burial No. 66, partly flexed on the right, the humeri along the body, the 
forearms flexed against them. At the neck were shell beads; under the skull 
was a handsome knife of flint, more than 9.5 inches in length, having a fine 
point at one end, neatly rounded at the other. 
Burials Nos. 67 and 68, partly flexed on the right, Burial No. 68 having shell 
beads at the neck. 
Burial No. 69, partly flexed to the right. 
Burial No. 70, partly flexed on the right. 
Burial No. 71, closely flexed on the right. 
Burial No. 72, partly flexed on the left. 
