398 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
visit, are six mounds. "These mounds, parallel to the river in an irregular line, 
seemed to be from 5 to 9 feet in height and from 30 to 50 feet in diameter of 
base, the smaller ones having been under cultivation and doubtless reduced in 
size. Permission not granted. 
MOUND ON THE JONES Prace, Maias COUNTY. 
About one-half mile in a straight line from the landing at the Jones Place, 
from which it is visible, was a mound 5 feet 2 inches in height and 37 feet in 
diameter, on property belonging to Mr. J. P. Hegler, of Decatur, Tenn. 
The mound, in a cultivated field, did not seem to have been plowed over, 
and the presence of large trees upon it prove that no cultivation could have 
taken place there for a long period. 
Fic. 97.—Spearhead of flint. Jones Place, Tenn. (About full size.) 
Previous to our coming, a trench about 8 feet aeross had been carried into 
the mound, but digging had been discontinued some distance from the center. 
A central excavation 11 feet by 12 feet was sunk by us, which included but a 
small part of the previous digging. Fourteen inches from the surface a mass 
of limestone was reached which projected above a number of other masses— 
not slabs—with which it was, and at a depth of 3 feet 5 inches was a group of 
similar masses of all sizes and shapes, some having thrice the bulk of a human 
head or more, some much smaller. 'These two groups evidently had been 
arranged with some definite design as to shape, but the upper group had been 
disturbed by an excavation of which there was no evidence on the surface of 
the mound, and in which we found a fragment of a glazed jar, while part of the 
lower group had been eut away by the trench we have described. Consequently, 
we were unable to form a definite idea of the original arrangment of the masses. 
The loamy material of which the mound was made, which lay under these 
masses of rock, was examined by us with the utmost care down into the yellow, 
undisturbed clay which underlay the mound at a depth of 5 feet 10 inches. No 
