ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 419 
MOUNDS ON THE ARTHUR PLACE, LOUDON COUNTY. 
On cultivated ground belonging to Mr. Felix Arthur, whose home is near by, 
are four mounds, all in sight from the bank of the river, the largest 5 feet 8 inches 
in height and 55 feet in diameter. Three of these mounds are in line and but a 
few feet apart. The fourth, about 200 feet away, is at a right angle from the 
middle mound of the three. Trees of considerable size on all the mounds give 
evidence that they have not been under cultivation in recent years; indeed, 
judging from their appearance, they have never been plowed. 
The mound chosen for investigation (the one at a distance from the rest) 
was 5 feet 6 inches in height and 40 feet in diameter. A hole 12 feet square, 
dug into the central part, reached a decaying skull and some small fragments 
of bone, about 22 inches down. 
In another part of the excavation, at a depth of 16 inches, were traces of 
bone and teeth of a child, with which were a few shell beads, and some marine 
shells (Olivella mutica) pierced for use as beads. 
Twenty-six inches down were a skull and some traces of other bones indi- 
cating a flexed burial. A small, flat fragment of limestone lay on the lower 
part of the trunk. 
Apart from bones were: a graceful arrowhead of flint, triangular, with the 
two basal extremities projecting downward somewhat; two spherical pebbles 
and one somewhat resembling a diminutive brick in shape, together. 
When the excavation had reached a depth of about 5 feet, heavy and prolonged 
rain induced us to abandon work additional to the filling of the excavation. 
MOUND NEAR LENOIR CITY, LOUDON COUNTY. 
About one-half mile northwest from Lenoir City Landing is a mound about 
5 feet high and 40 feet in diameter (estimated), on property of the Lenoir City 
Company. Permission not granted. 
MOUNDS OPPOSITE LENOIR CITY, LOUDON COUNTY. 
About one mile east of the ferry landing opposite Lenoir City, where Little 
Tennessee river enters the Tennessee, on the farm of Mr. J. W. Bussell, are five 
mounds, the largest about 6 feet high and 50 feet in diameter (estimated). 
Permission refused. 
The mounds on both sides of Tennessee river, near Lenoir City, are described 
and mapped in the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 
(page 397 et seq.). 
MOUNDS on THE EDWARD Prater PLACE, BLOUNT COUNTY. 
In a cultivated field, on high land rising from the river-bank, belonging 
to Mr. Edward Prater, who lives somewhat farther back in the country, are two 
mounds but a few feet apart, one of which, about 18 inches in height, seemed to 
have been thoroughly dug. 
