ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 367 
This burial was exceptional, the skeleton lying in a grave 4 feet 3 inches 
deep, which had been filled in to a depth of 14 inches with the ordinary material 
from the site, leaving a concave surface. Above this was a layer of charcoal, 
7 inches deep, which followed the outline of the sandy loam. Above the char- 
coal was reddened clay in small masses, having a maximum thickness of 15 inches, 
which, in its turn, was covered by 14 inches of sandy loam. 
Burial No. 28 lay partly flexed to the right, the right humerus along the 
trunk, the forearm crossing the body at about a right angle, the left upper arm 
along the thorax, the forearm flexed upward and across the thorax. Three 
chips, and five flint arrowheads, the smallest 1.05 inch in length, lay at the 
left of the skull, and at the outer side of the left elbow, in an elongated pile, 
were 47 fragments nearly all of flint, a few probably of quartzite, the largest 
Fra. 85.—Pipe of earthenware. With Burial No. 28. Hampton Place, Tenn. (About full size.) 
having the bulk, but not the outline, of a hen's egg; three pebbles; three leaf- 
shaped implements of flint, the largest 3.75 inches in length; a small flint scraper. 
On the thorax lay an interesting pipe of earthenware (Fig. 85) having perforated 
projections on two opposite sides of the bowl, a very rare form, and two discs, 
one of copper, about 5 inches in diameter, lying immediately above the other, 
which is of brass and has a diameter of 6.3 inches. Both these dises have central, 
circular openings, the smaller slightly more than 2 inches across, the larger 3.3 
inches in diameter. 
Burial No. 29, a child 44 inches down, having glass beads at the neck and 
wearing a bracelet of sheet-brass rolled to make a roughly-cireular cross-section 
and having the extremities drawn around to bring one somewhat above the other. 
Burial No. 30, the trunk lying extended on the right side at the bottom of a 
pit 5 feet in depth, the right humerus projecting somewhat from the side, the 
forearm partly flexed on it, the left upper arm along the trunk, the forearm flexed 
against its upper arm, the right femur diagonally across the pelvis, the tibia 
closely flexed on the thigh, the left femur vertical, its tibia partly flexed on it. 
