368 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
Burial No. 31, the trunk against the side of the pit, bending forward, the 
thighs together and vertical, the legs closely flexed on them, the skull bent over 
back of the femora, on the pelvis, the right humerus down along the aside of 
the pit, the left humerus diagonally forward and down, both forearms across 
the pelvis. On the sternum was a dise of sheet-brass 4.5 inches in diameter, 
having a circular opening in the center somewhat less than 1 inch across. Above 
the head was a rusty blade of iron or of steel. Burnt clay lay just above this 
burial, which, however, was not affected by heat. Тһе grave-pit was 5 feet in 
depth. 
In the digging were found, apart from burials, a number of arrowheads and 
scrapers of flint; a celt of igneous rock, 4.5 inches in length, grooved on its nar- 
rower sides to facilitate fastening; a pebble about 3.5 inches long, rudely chipped 
to form a spearhead; and a jaw probably of a young bison. 
The entire property at this place was carefully searched with a view to the 
discovery of minute arrowpoints and in the hope of finding another cemetery, 
in both of which efforts, however, we were unsuccessful, though considerable 
digging was done in various places which evidently had been aboriginal dwelling- 
sites. 
From the surface came: A considerable number of arrowheads and knives of 
flint, some of the arrowheads being slender and triangular like most found in 
this region, the smallest one being about .75 inch in length; small scrapers of 
flint; rude chisels of shale; a pebble notched on two opposite sides, evidently a 
sinker, found near the river-bank; a stone of considerable size, deeply pitted in 
three places and showing other somewhat elementary pits; a handsome point of 
flint, 3.5 inches in length; a small, triangular pendant of sheet-brass, pierced at 
one end for suspension. 
Mr. Earle Haney, son of the tenant on the lower part of the Hampton Place, 
a pupil at the high school in Chattanooga and much interested in Indian anti- 
quities, informed us he had resided on the place eight years and had found on it 
quantities of arrowpoints, none of which, however, was less than one-half inch 
in length, and points of this size were very exceptional. 
Following along the bank, upstream, on this property for about one mile, 
one comes in sight of a mound (Mound A) near a building used for the storage 
of hay. This mound, 6.5 feet high, measured from the outside, and 42 feet in 
diameter of its irregularly circular base, evidently had been much dug into 
previously in the upper part. 
A central excavation 12 feet square was put down by us, soon reaching bones 
scattered by former diggers, and in another place, four slabs of stone near which 
no bones were found. At a depth of 4.5 feet the upper part of a skeleton was 
reached, the remainder having been cut away by digging, aboriginal or recent. 
A dark base-line was reached 6 feet 7 inches down, which had been cut through 
by a grave 45 inches long by 2 feet wide, extending 10 inches into the undisturbed, 
underlying soil. In this grave no trace of bone remained, though a small quartz 
erystal, which doubtless had been with a burial, was found. 
