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was a low elevation having considerable debris on the surface. Five skeletons 
were uncovered as a result of considerable digging. 
Burial No. 2, closely flexed on the right, the upper arms parallel to the body, 
having the forearms closely flexed against them, had two slabs of limestone 
over the feet. "This burial was 8 inches below the surface. 
Burial No. 3, adolescent, partly flexed to the left, lay in a grave 18 inches 
below the surface, one foot of the grave extending into undisturbed yellow clay 
which afforded a marked contrast to the dark soil with which the grave was 
filled. Beads made by piercing sea-shells (Olivella) were around the waist, 
along both forearms, at the inner side of the right upper arm, at the front of 
the upper part of the right side of the thorax, and at the back of the right shoulder- 
blade, 888 in all. At the right elbow, encircling the forearm, were nine beads 
from 1.1 inch to 1.6 inch in length, made from columell of marine shells. 
Burial No. 4, at full length on the back, depth one foot. 
Burials Nos. 5 and 6, children lying side by side, one foot down. 
DWELLING-SITE AND MOUNDS ON THE HAMPTON PLACE, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
On the left-hand side of the river, going up, in sight from the lower part 
of the city of Chattanooga, on Moccasin Bend, famed for the discovery there of 
aboriginal remains, is one of the numerous properties so courteously placed by 
Mr. Walter Hampton, of North Chattanooga, Tenn., at the disposal of the 
Academy for investigation. 
Over much of this estate, in places, lies debris left by aboriginal occupancy, 
and circumstantial accounts from various sources, of the finding of many relics 
on the place, superficially and by digging, are current. 
Wires carying power to the city of Chattanooga and beyond from the elec- 
trical plant at Hale’s Bar dam cross Tennessee river at the lower end of this 
estate. About two hundred yards ESE. from the last iron structure supporting 
the wires on the side of the river on which the estate is, we noticed ground 
slightly higher than was most of the cultivated land surrounding it, and were 
told by Mr. Haney, the tenant on the lower part of the Hampton Place, that 
human bones had been dug from this place in the past. 
Extensive digging by us in this higher ground strongly indicated that burials 
in it had been confined to a restricted area of irregular outline, 34 feet long 
and 19 feet and 25 feet wide at the two ends, respectively. 
This burial place was completely dug through by us and proved to be loamy 
sand extending down about 4 feet to underlying clay. In it were encountered 
thirty-one burials (excluding several disturbed by previous digging), all in graves 
or in grave-pits, the graves being such as we had been accustomed to along the 
river, containing flexed burials and burials at length. 
The grave-pits, however, were circular, about 2 feet in diameter, and were 
deeper than the graves, sometimes extending a foot or more into the underlying 
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