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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 415 
26 inches a dark line was reached, presumably the original surface of the ground, 
beneath which was the undisturbed red clay of the hills. 
In the eastern side of the excavation was a grave in the form of an irregular 
circle with diameters of 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 6 inches. This pit apparently 
had been dug to a depth of 2 feet below the base of the mound and was clearly 
defined, extending into the red clay. 
On the bottom of the grave was a skeleton partly flexed on the left side, with 
charcoal under it and along it in places. The grave, which was concave, re- 
sembling a large basin, had been partly filled with the red clay that had been 
dug out in its making and which also was piled around the margin of the grave. 
The red clay that had been used to fill was easily distinguishable from the clay 
of the same color of the solid ground surrounding it, as it was much less compaet 
than was the undisturbed clay. Evidently the mound had been built largely 
from the brown material taken from the surface, and this material had been 
used to complete the filling of the grave. 
About one-half mile SSE. from the mound just described, also on the property 
of Mr. Huffine, is another, somewhat smaller, which we decided not to investigate. 
MOUND ON THE PICKLES PLACE, Roane County. 
On the property of Mr. J. E. Pickles is a mound 40 feet in diameter and 
5 feet high (estimated). Permission not granted. 
MOUNDS NEAR Paint Rock CREEK, ROANE COUNTY. 
One-half mile S. by E. from the mouth of Paint Rock creek, in a cultivated 
field belonging to Mrs. J. H. Byrd, of Loudon, Tenn., is a mound about 9 feet 
high and 75 feet in diameter (estimated). This mound, though kindly placed 
at our disposal by Mrs. Byrd, was covered with growing grain at the time of 
our visit and was not dug into by us. 
On the property of Mr. R. H. Bell, on the lower side of Paint Rock creek, 
are seven mounds: one 3.5 feet, three 5 feet each, one 10 feet, one 12 feet, one 
22 feet in height (estimated). The two largest mounds have flat tops; on the 
smallest is a building. Permission refused. 
In the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (page 461) 
is an account of these mounds near Paint Rock Ferry, which is near the mouth 
of Paint Rock creek. The height of the largest mound is given as 40 feet, a great 
over-estimate. In a mound at this place, according to the investigator for the 
Bureau, a stone grave (not of the box-shape) was found and stone slabs lay on 
the surface. 
MOUNDS NEAR Movutu or POND CREEK, LOUDON COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile W. by S. from the mouth of Pond creek, and in sight 
from it, is a mound in a cultivated field, the mound also having been plowed 
over. Mr. F. A. Berry, the owner of the property, who resides on it, informed 
