ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 387 
With scattered bones was a group of objects as follows: a bone piercing imple- 
ment; a small cube of galena, artificially shaped, as the structure does not agree 
with the crystalline, or natural, cube; a bit of red oxide of iron; two rude or 
partly-finished arrowheads; a flat pebble resembling a celt in outline; some 
pebbles and parts of pebbles, of flint; one small mass of limestone. 
With other disturbed bones was a deposit of flint arrowheads, unfortunately 
thrown out and scattered by the digger, from which twenty-two were recovered. 
rom the soil of the ridge came: discoidal stones and dises of pottery; a 
bead of bone, nearly one inch in length; a bicave of earthenware;' a pipe blocked 
out of elaystone (Fig. 96); the lower jaw of a wolf, having, when found, a bone 
Ета. 96.— Pipe blocked out but unfinished. Citico, Tenn. (Full size.) 
piercing implement resting upon it; a fragment of earthenware from a con- 
siderable depth, the ware being tempered with fine particles of shell and having 
a superior, yellow slip bearing a decoration in red paint, very carefully con- 
ferred. "This fragment, similar to one found on the surface, belongs to the same 
class of painted ware as do the two bowls found in Mound A at the Bennett 
Place, below Chattanooga (pages 338-352). At the Citieo site apparently this 
fine ware was too highly prized to place it with the dead. 
MOUND on THE BELL PLACE, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
The Bell Place, of which Mr. James 8. Bell, of Hill City, Tenn., is the owner, 
is just above the union of South Chickamauga creek with Tennessee river. In 
a cultivated field at this place is a mound within sight from the river, slightly 
more than 10 feet in height and 60 feet across its circular base. This mound, 
covered with stumps and trees, had been so greatly dug into in various parts 
that no investigation was attempted by us. In sight from this mound were 
1 Dr, Н. M. Whelpley refers to bicaves of pottery in W. К. Moorehead’s “Prehistoric Imple- 
ments,” p. 165. 
