422 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
aboriginal dwelling-site whose dark soil, filled with organie matter, shows it to 
have been a place of aboriginal abode for a long time. On the surface were 
scattered shells and numerous fragments of human bones. The place has а 
history of many skeletons plowed up there. 
From the surface were gathered: a small discoidal stone; a flat pebble rounded 
by chipping; a number of arrowheads and knives of flint, and one of quartz; a 
slate gorget, elliptical in outline, the two “perforations” of which had not been 
completed. Owing to a natural desire on the part of the owner that his rich 
pasture land should not be extensively dug into, it was arranged that four trial- 
holes should be put down to serve as an indication of the contents of the site. 
In two of these holes were fragments of human bones, too deep for the plow 
to have disturbed and presumably scattered in aboriginal times. In another 
hole, about 20 inches deep, lay a skeleton flexed to the left, the arms folded 
across the lower part of the trunk. On both forearms were many small, discoidal 
shell beads of great uniformity of size, each being about .12 of an inch in diameter. 
So minute are these beads that, beyond doubt, a number were lost in the soil; 
2,997, however, were recovered, including twelve somewhat broken. 
MOUND OPPOSITE LOONEY ISLAND, Knox COUNTY. 
Opposite the lower end of Looney Island is a property belonging to Dr. B. D. 
Brabson, of Knoxville, Tenn. In sight from the landing on this property is a 
mound somewhat less than 7 feet in height, and 60 feet in diameter of base. This 
mound had been dug out centrally and extensively trenched from two sides, 
and perhaps otherwise explored. In view of all this digging an investigation of 
the mound was deemed inexpedient. 
MOUND NEAR KNOXVILLE. 
About one mile below the city of Knoxville, on the grounds of the College of 
Agriculture and Experiment Station, University of Tennessee, is a mound 10 
feet in height and 75 feet in diameter (estimated). As there was a laudable 
desire on the part of the management of the college to protect the trees growing 
on this mound, permission to dig into it was not granted. 
