404 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
The axe obtained from Mr. Brown, which had been badly battered since 
its discovery, is 10 inches in length and slightly more than .25 inch in maximum 
thickness. The flaring blade (on which traces of notches are still visible) is 
about 1.5 inch in width, while the opposite end is .5 inch wide. "The weight is 
twelve ounces. 
An employee of Mr. Kimbrough, the owner of the property, also plowed 
from this mound, according to Mr. Kimbrough, a ceremonial axe of native 
copper, of the same kind as the other, which Mr. Kimbrough values highly and 
has preserved in perfect condition. The length of the axe, which we carefully 
inspected, is 16.75 inches; its maximum thickness about .2 inch. The minimum 
width, which is at the end opposite the blade, is .17 inch. At the union of the 
flaring blade with the body of the axe the width is .9 inch; and that of the blade, 
on which are thirteen notches, is 1.5 inch. 
Later we saw a son of Mr. Brown who showed us a bicave of quartz, with 
central perforation, very symmetrical, about 6 inches in diameter. This hand- 
some specimen, which we were told had been plowed from the mound from 
which the ceremonial axes were taken, was in use as a soap dish. 
We also obtained from Mr. Brown, as having come from the place, though 
there seems some uncertainty as to just what part of 1t, a small celt, a grooved 
axe, and what has been called an anvil-stone, similar to one figured by Thruston.! 
Farther along, in an adjacent field on the Kimbrough Place, is a mound in 
sight from the landing, which has been largely plowed away. Its height was 3 
feet 4 inches; its diameter of base, 47 feet. On the surface are many slabs of 
fossiliferous limestone and some fragments of human bones. 
This mound, which was made up of clay mixed with sand, was suitable for 
the use of a sounding-rod, which was freely employed. In addition, trial-holes 
were put down throughout much of its higher parts. Fragments of a skull 
were found in two instances, near the surface. 
At a depth of 13 inches was a stone grave differing from those found by 
us so far, in that the burial lay between horizontal placements of slabs but 
having none on the sides and at the ends. A much-decayed skeleton lay closely 
flexed to the right, the head WNW., the right forearm flexed up to the shoulder, 
the left forearm lying across the body. On the skull was a small slab of lime- 
stone (all slabs from this place were of this material), and a long, narrow slab 
lay across the upper part of the thorax. А third slab was over the pelvis and 
lower extremities. 
Beneath the skull and the upper part of the thorax lay a slab; another had 
been placed beneath the trunk; a third was under the pelvis and extremities. 
All the slabs in connection with this burial had been carelessly placed, there 
having been no attempt to avoid leaving open spaces, of which there were a 
number. 
In two places in this mound were two lines of slabs arranged in a slanting 
1 05. cit., Fig. 172. 
