ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 353 
About central as to the base and extending 1 foot 4 inches into the yellow 
clay below it, was a grave in the form of a wide ellipse, 6 feet by 4 feet, approxi- 
mately, containing a much-decayed skeleton partly flexed to the left, the head 
NNE., the whole burial being indicated simply by small fragments. The 
Fic. 79.—Grave in the center of the base of the mound, 6 feet by 4 feet, having an arrangement 
of stones placed over a skeleton, the crushed skull of which is visible in the illustration. White Place, 
Tenn. 
skeleton had been placed immediately on the base of the grave, and directly on 
the skeleton and around it had been arranged irregularly twenty-six blocks of 
sandstone as shown in Fig. 79, a space, however, having been left uncovered 
35 JOURN. A. М. 8. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
