352 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
MOUND C. 
A short distance N. by W. from Mound A was Mound C, on a very irregular 
area of about 5,400 square yards. The mound, having a circular base, was 5 
feet in height and had a diameter of 50 feet. An excavation 12 feet square was 
sunk until water was reached, passing through dark soil containing organic 
matter but having no trace of burials. The base of the excavation was care- 
fully prodded for stone graves, but without success. 
A short distance NNE. from mound A is an area above water, somewhat 
greater in extent than is that upon which was Mound C The area in question, 
which had a barn upon it before the construction of the dam, had no elevation 
which was distinctly a mound. At its highest part, however, several feet above 
water-level, trial-holes showed no sign of aboriginal occupancy and soon reached 
undisturbed subsoil. 
MOUND AND DWELLING-SITE ON THE WHITE PLACE, Marion COUNTY. 
In full view from the river, on property of Mr. Taylor White, resident upon 
it, was a mound 7 feet 4 inches in height and 52 feet by 35 feet in diameter of 
base, which was said never to have been dug into or plowed over. The dwelling- 
site lies between the mound and the river. 
The mound, which would have been a symmetrical, blunt cone had not the 
marginal parts on two opposite sides been plowed away, was dug by us to the 
extent of an excavation 14 feet square, sunk centrally and including a consider- 
able portion of the slope as well as all the summit, there having been practically 
no level space on the top. 
What was seemingly a base was reached at a depth between 6.5 and 7 feet, 
the clay at that level having been of a lighter shade than was that of which the 
mound was composed. Masses of sandstone, some about double the size of a 
human head, others of greater or less dimensions, were scattered here and there 
in the mound with no arrangement. 
About 9 inches from the summit was a human skull in fragments, much 
decayed. 
Four feet below the top of the mound, approximately, but somewhat less 
from the sloping surface under which this burial lay, were traces of human 
remains, indicating a burial partly flexed, the knees to the right. This burial 
was represented by traces of a skull, then a space where ribs, vertebrae, and 
arms had been, and then traces of femora and tibiz. 
In a grave 4 feet 7 inches by 1 foot 10 inches, extending about 1 foot below 
the base of the mound and very clearly defined in the light-yellow clay, was a 
skeleton at a total depth of about 8 feet, considerably decayed and fragmentary, 
but in much better condition than was the one above it in the mound, lying 
closely flexed to the right, the head directed SSW. Both humeri were parallel 
to the body, the right forearm flexed closely against the upper arm, the left 
forearm across the body. This burial lay at the end of our excavation. 
