356 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Here ends the description of the sites into which, it is believed, relic-hunters 
have dug before, the remaining two sites having been, we are confident, undis- 
turbed before our visit. 
About one-quarter mile above the lower end of the island is a restricted 
area of dark soil having fragments of shell and bits of flint on the surface. No 
rise was apparent. 
Thirteen trial-holes came upon two burials, as follows: 
Burial No. 12, closely flexed on the right, the head NNE., depth 9 inches. 
Burial No. 13, partly flexed to the left, the upper arms parallel to the trunk, 
the right forearm across the body, the left forearm flexed against the humerus. 
Bordering the water's edge, on the eastern side of the island and one-half 
mile, approximately, from the upper end of it, is an aboriginal dwelling-site of 
considerable extent, as evidenced by the character of the soil and the presence 
on the surface of fragments of shell, of stone, and of pottery to a limited extent, 
one bit of the latter bearing a design conferred with a stamp. 
Considerable digging in this place, where no rise was apparent above the 
general level, yielded two burials: 
Burial No. 14, closely flexed on the right, the head SW., lay in a grave more 
than 4 feet deep. | 
Burial No. 15, 3 feet down, partly flexed to the right, the upper arms along 
the body, the right forearm closely flexed on the humerus, the left forearm in 
line with the upper arm. The skull, which was directed W. by N., was saved 
in excellent condition. А piercing implement of bone lay at the inner side of 
the left elbow. This burial was in material similar to the surrounding soil. 
No limits to the grave could be determined. 
Here ended our investigation of Williams Island, as no other aboriginal 
sites were apparent. It would not have surprised us to have found no burials 
on this island, considering the cultivation and the amount of digging that is 
said to have taken place there, but to find so few and comparatively unin- 
teresting objects interred with the dead at this well-known place was entirely 
unexpected. 
We may not leave Williams Island without reference to the minute arrow- 
points alleged to have been found there and along Moccasin Bend, nearby. 
These minute points, some hardly more than one-sixteenth inch in length, 
аге well known to archzologists. They have been described by Professor 
Moorehead' who, however, never having visited the locality, of course had to 
rely on statements made to him. Professor Moorehead says: 
“One of the strangest things in Middle South archeology is the high art 
exhibited in the exceedingly small points found at Moccasin Bend, Tennessee 
VOR S. 
“Col. Young [Col. Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, Ky.] has the largest 
1 * Prehistoric Implements,” p. 168 et seq. 
