ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 401 
Twenty-five inches down was a skeleton, much decayed, partly flexed on the 
left, the head W., and in another part of the excavation the skeleton of an adoles- 
cent lay partly flexed on the right, the head S. One of these burials seemed to 
be in a grave and the other probably was also. It was dug down upon by one 
of our men before this question was determined. 
About centrally in the base of the mound was a pit, 4 feet in length, extending 
6 inches into the yellow, undisturbed clay. The width of this pit was not 
ascertained, as the margin of the grave was partly dug away before its presence 
was noted. Though the digging was closely watched, it is possible that part 
of the burial was removed, as the remains, of which only a skull was found, were 
hardly more than a trace. 
Mound B, 110 feet about E. from Mound A, 9 feet 9 inches in height, 60 feet 
across its circular base. No sign of previous digging. 
Mound C, 100 feet NE. by E. from Mound A, 12 feet in height, base circular, 
diameter, 73 feet. A large trench had been dug in from the eastern side. 
Mound D, about 270 feet E. by N. from Mound B; height, 6 feet; diameter 
of circular base, 42 feet. This mound had been dug into to a slight extent. 
A large tree on top and others on the slope made the mound a mass of roots. 
Mound E, 50 feet NE. from Mound B; height, 9 feet; diameter of circular 
base, 50 feet. It is encircled by a well-defined ditch slightly more than one 
foot deep. The mound forms a very symmetrical cone, slightly truncated. 
A trench had been dug in from the eastern side prior to our visit. 
Mound F, 120 feet N. from Mound E; height 5 feet 4 inches; elliptical base, 
40 feet by 48 feet. Two small previously-made holes were noted, one in the 
summit, the other in the side. 
A hole 12 feet by 12 feet was sunk by us, which soon passed beyond the small 
hole referred to and reached yellow clay, which was encountered 5 feet 2 inches 
below the top of the mound. No sign of burial or of artifact was encountered 
in the body of the mound, which was made up of two layers, the upper one of 
yellow, loamy clay, about 2 feet thick, and the lower one of brown clay con- 
taining some sand about 3 feet in thickness. No pit had cut into the light- 
yellow layer from the surface, nor had any grave originating in that layer ex- 
tended into the brown stratum below it. 
The base of the mound was scraped clean by us, showing yellow, undisturbed 
clay all over, except at one place where a grave 7 feet 6 inches long by 4 feet 
2 inches wide extended one foot into the otherwise undisturbed soil. This 
grave, which was not central in the base, but commenced at about the center 
and lay ENE. and WNW. (the same direction as the major axis of the mound), 
the eastern end being the one away from the center, had been dug only from the 
original surface down and then the mound had been built upon it. This was 
evident because at each side of the grave was piled the yellow clay dug from it 
originally, while the grave itself was filled with the brown material composing 
the lower stratum of the mound. 
41 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XVI. 
