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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 405 
position. These, beyond doubt, had formed parts of graves of a kind we found 
in another mound at this place. The graves in the mound under description 
had been largely plowed away. No trace of bones remained near the slabs. 
On the line between the Kimbrough Place and the property of Mr. C. C. 
Brown, which adjoins it, is a mound visible from the river-bank. This mound, 
about evenly divided by a fence, has a diameter of about 45 feet. The height 
of the southern half, which is on the Kimbrough Place and has not been under 
cultivation, is about 5 feet 8 inches. The other portion, long plowed over, 
and covered with growing grain at the time of our visit, is considerably lower. 
Our investigation was first directed to the southern side of the mound, on 
which were some trees of rapid growth (poplar) and from which a marginal part 
had been plowed away, though, as we have stated, this side of the mound had 
not been plowed over. Many slabs which had been unearthed in the plowing, 
lay around. 
In an excavation in the middle of this southern half of the mound we found 
a pile of bones in no anatomical order, at a depth of 14 inches, which may have 
been a bunched burial or an aboriginal disturbance, as near it, but lower, was a 
stone grave without slabs at the sides, ends, or bottom. 
Twenty-eight inches down was a skeleton partly flexed to the left, the head 
W., the partial flexion of the remains causing the knees to project from the line 
of the body. Above the skeleton had been placed an oblong arrangement of two 
thicknesses of flat fragments of limestone in line, all small or of moderate size, 
from a side of which, at right angles, was a projection of similar slabs arranged 
to cover the knees, the entire covering, however, being in excess of the area 
required to protect the skeleton. 
Also in the southern part of the mound, 22 inches down, lying partly flexed 
to the right, the head NW., was a skeleton with no slabs in association. 
Not far from the other was an interesting form of stone grave in the shape 
of a right angle composed of a single thickness of slabs unevenly placed. These 
lay nearly 3 feet from the surface, above the skeleton of a child, partly flexed 
to the right. Covering this skeleton, or nearly doing so, for part of the skull was 
exposed, was one side of the angular grave, having a length of 42 inches, a width 
of 22 inches. A head-piece had been placed about vertically. Slanting down 
from this head-piece was a slab covering most of the skull, the rest of the skeleton 
being protected by two other slabs in a horizontal position. 
From the head of the line of slabs was an extension at right angles, 2 feet in 
length and 17 inches in width, made up of single slabs. Тһе purpose for this 
extension was not apparent, inasmuch as no part of the skeleton projected beyond 
the line of its covering slabs, the part of the skull exposed being so through an 
irregularity in the shape of the slab immediately above it. No sign of bones 
or of artifacts lay beneath this extension. 
In the northwestern, or cultivated, part of the mound, was a burial of a new 
variety so far as our experience along the Tennessee extends. It is interesting 
