388 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
several slight rises which we were told were what remained of mounds that had 
been plowed away. 
MOUNDS on THE McKenzie PLACE, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
On the McKenzie Place, of which Mr. R. N. McKenzie, of Chattanooga, 
Tenn., is the owner, are three small mounds in full view from the southern end 
of the C. N. O. and T. P. railroad bridge which crosses the Tennessee river at 
this place. These mounds, never of any importance as to size, have been dug 
into and plowed away to such an extent that no measurement would give any 
idea of their original dimensions or shapes. No investigation was attempted. 
MOUNDS BELOW HARRISON FERRY, HAMILTON COUNTY. 
Two miles below Harrison Ferry, on the right-hand side of the river, going 
up, is a group of four mounds, all in full view one from another and from the 
river-bank. Two of these mounds are on the property of Mr. James Hunter, 
living some distance back from the river, one symmetrical with circular base, 
having a diameter of 44 feet, being almost intact. Its height is 7 feet. 
The other mound, also circular as to the base, is 48 feet in diameter and 7.5 
feet in height, according to our measurement, which is uncertain, as masses of 
material thrown up by a previous digger have bushes growing over them and 
can not be distinguished from the mound proper. Permission to dig was not 
granted. 
The remaining two mounds are on the Montgomery Place, which adjoins 
that of Mr. Hunter and of which Mr. J. H. Montgomery is the owner. The 
mound farther from the river-bank is 42 feet in diameter and 4.5 feet in height. 
An excavation about 5 feet by 8 feet was put down in the central part of this 
mound, passing through part of a former digging. In a portion of the mound 
not included by our predecessor, at a depth of one foot, was the skeleton of an 
adult lying partly flexed to the right. Part of a skeleton near this one, and at 
about the same depth, had been cut off by a former trench. In one part of 
our excavation was a thin deposit of musselshells (Unio) which included a mass 
of silicious rock in that part of the deposit dug through by us. This deposit of 
shells was about 32 inches from the top of the mound and seemed to be on what 
had been the original surface of the ground, though our measurement from the 
outside made it somewhat more. Cutting through the deposit of shells was a 
grave-pit, the starting-point of which we could not determine; its base, however, 
was somewhat more than 5 feet in depth. On the bottom of the pit lay the skele- 
ton of an adult, extended on the back. 
In the same grave as the preceding burial was a skeleton almost extended 
on the back but having the knees projecting somewhat to the right. At the 
left of the pelvis was the axis of a conch-shell, much decayed. 
The other mound on the Montgomery Place had a diameter of 38 feet, the 
height being somewhat less than 8 feet. An excavation 8 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 
