ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 409 
MOUNDS ON THE CAMPBELL PLACE, Roane COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. E. F. Campbell, of Cleveland, Tenn., immediately 
opposite Half Moon Island, are six mounds a short distance back from the river, 
the smallest mound of the group, immediately in from the landing, being 5 feet 
in height and 35 feet in diameter. 
A short distance from this mound are four others, almost in a straight line 
and but a few yards apart, all very symmetrical, none showing previous digging 
Fie. 98.—Mounds on the Campbell Place, Tenn. 
or disturbance by the plow. These mounds are shown in Fig. 98. "Their heights 
in order going eastwardly are 9 feet, 9 feet 4 inches, 8 feet 2 inches, 11 feet 3 
inches; their diameters, 45 feet each, with the exception of the highest, which 
is 50 feet. 
A short distance from these mounds, though not in line with them, is another, 
11 feet 5 inches in height and 70 feet in diameter. A trench of considerable size, 
which we were informed had yielded only fragments of bones, had been put in 
from one side. 
'The mound nearest the landing, the one 5 feet in height, was selected by us 
for examination, and an excavation 12 feet square was put down by us through 
the base, which proved to be at a depth of slightly more than 4 feet. At 16, 20, 
and 22 inches down were decaying fragments of bone. On the base-line was a 
fragment of the petrous part of a temporal bone of a human skull. 
MOUNDS NEAR Rockwoop LANDING, RoANE COUNTY. 
On the property of Dr. Charles Wilson, of Rockwood, Tenn., are five mounds 
ranging between 4 and 9 feet in height (estimated). Permission not granted. 
MOUND on THE Ноор PLACE, ROANE COUNTY. 
On property of Mr. T. L. Hood, in full view from the water, is a mound 
11 feet in height and 55 feet in diameter (estimated), which, when visited by us 
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