360 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
in another part of the excavation was not visibly associated with skeletal re- 
mains, though possibly decay might account for their absence. No other shell 
deposits were found in the excavation. 
Burial No. 4, a pit extending about 1 foot 3 inches below the base of the 
mound, contained fragments and traces of bones which indicated that the 
skeleton had been partly flexed on the right, the head pointing SSW. 
MOUND C. 
This mound was 45 feet distant from Mound B, and, like it, very dry and 
hard. Its height was 6.5 feet, outside measurement; the diameters were 58 feet 
by 36 feet. Here, too, the marginal parts had been plowed away on two opposite 
. sides. A trench about 4 feet wide had been carried in by diggers previous to 
our coming, along the base to about its center. 
An excavation 12 feet square sunk by us through the middle of this mound 
included part of this trench, and at a depth of 7.5 feet came to what seemed to 
be undisturbed ground in which no fragments of stone or other indication of 
the presence of aboriginal products were noted. | No shell deposit was encountered 
in any part of the excavation. After reaching the base, a hole about 2 feet square 
was carried 18 inches deeper without passing through other than seemingly 
undisturbed ground. 
With exception of traces of a skull found at a depth of 5.5 feet, no signs of 
human remains were met by us in this mound, though it is not unlikely that 
other burials formerly present in the excavated part had decayed away. 
At Carter Farm, which, as we have said, is opposite Williams Island, were 
a number of places where the surface soil had been washed and furrowed by 
rain and where quantities of small chips of flint were present. No arrowheads, 
however, were found, though it would be at a place such as this that the minute 
points reported discovered in this vicinity might be expected. 
MOUND AND DWELLING-SITE AT WILLIAMS ISLAND FERRY, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
The landing place of a ferry from the mainland to Williams Island is on 
property belonging to Mr. Walter Hampton, of North Chattanooga, whose 
courtesy to the Academy we have had occasion to note in connection with 
Williams Island. 
About one hundred yards easterly from the eastern end of Williams Island 
Ferry, in a cultivated field, is a mound slightly more than 2 feet in height and 
about 50 feet in diameter, whose shape has probably been altered by long culti- 
vation. 
Eight trial-holes, which covered fairly what had been the original mound, 
came upon a skeleton (Burial No. 1) lying at full length on the back at a depth 
of 2 feet, in the base of the mound. Near the left shoulder was an arrowhead of 
flint. 
About 50 yards in a northerly direction from the mound, in the same field, 
