ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 407 
MOUNDS on THE LOWER HAMPTON Prace, RHEA COUNTY. 
On the Lower Hampton Place, belonging to Mr. Walter Hampton, of North 
Chattanooga, extending for some distance along a ridge, as a rule, sometimes in 
pairs or in groups of three, some in woods, some in cultivated fields, are fifteen 
mounds, the largest, 9 feet in height and 65 feet in diameter. All these mounds 
are of the type common in this region, namely, the blunt cone. 
One of these mounds, on the flat crest of a ridge, a short distance back from 
the river, about 30 feet from another mound, was 4 feet in height and 40 feet in 
diameter. A hole 12 feet square was put down, reaching at a depth of 40 inches 
a decaying skull with no trace of other bones. 
About 4 feet 9 inches deep undisturbed red clay with pebbles was reached. 
'The entire base was carefully searched without discovery of any burial or further 
trace of human remains. 
Movunps AT EUCHEE, Marias COUNTY. 
At Euchee are two mounds belonging to Mr. J. P. Celvahouse, of that place. 
These mounds, of the usual shape, estimated by our agent to be 12 feet and 4 feet 
high, with diameters of 75 feet and 50 feet, respectively, are used in time of 
high water to store goods upon, thus saving their transport to the hills; conse- 
quently, digging into the mounds was not desired. 
MOUNDS ON THE UPPER HAMPTON PLACE, RHEA COUNTY. 
On the Upper Hampton Place, belonging to Mr. Walter Hampton, a num- 
ber of whose properties we have described in this report, are five mounds in an 
irregular line, but a few feet apart, none of which has been under cultivation. 
Taking these mounds in order, beginning with the most northerly one, the 
heights are: 6 feet 9 inches; 9 feet 8 inches; 15 feet 9 inches; 10 feet 2 inches; 
6 feet 4 inches. The diameters of the circular bases of these mounds, taken in 
the same order as the heights, are: 55 feet; 60 feet; 85 feet; 55 feet; 50 feet. 
Numerous slabs, unquestionably from stone graves, lay upon one of them. 
Selecting the smallest mound for investigation, a hole about 11 feet square 
reached the base-line at a depth of 4 feet 4 inches, showing that the mound had 
been increased in height, presumably by the washing away of adjacent ground, 
which could readily be the case, the mound being on a slope. 
Not far from the center of the excavation, on the dark material marking the 
original surface of the ground, were remains of a skull, no other bones being 
present. With the skull was part of the columella of a conch-shell. 
At one corner of the excavation were remnants, here and there, of bones 
which, from their position, indieated they had formed part of a skeleton lying at 
full length. Near the skull were two parts of the columella of a conch; two similar 
ones had been placed near where the left shoulder had been. 
Extending over a number of acres along the river, at the Upper Hampton 
Place, is an aboriginal dwelling-site, now à cultivated field, having on the surface 
