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trace of heat. It was evident, then, that the cremation had been performed 
elsewhere and the reddened sand gathered up with the bones. 
MOUNDS ох THE MARKHAM PLACE, Lake County, TENN. 
Going іп a short distance from the river, about one-half mile below Bass 
Landing, one reaches the property of Mr. A. E. Markham, of Tiptonville, Tenn., 
on which is a mound about 7.5 feet in height, covered with recent graves, and 
five remnants of mounds. These remainders, which have been under culti- 
vation for à considerable time, are in no ease more than 3 feet in height. 
Two of these, having heights respectively of 2 feet and 2 feet 9 inches, and 
diameters of 50 feet each, were investigated by us, holes 8 feet by 10 feet and 
8 feet by 12 feet being carried to the base. 
Centrally in the smaller excavation, beginning at the base and extending 
2 feet into the underlying clay, was a grave 3 feet 4 inches wide by 8 feet long, 
containing the remains of a skeleton at full length, having at the right hand a 
coarse, undecorated pot in fragments, and at the outer side of the left shoulder a 
pipe of claystone, of the monitor type, also greatly broken, which, put together 
and slightly restored, is shown in Fig. 26. 
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Fic. 26.—Pipe of monitor type. The Markham Place, Tenn. (Full size.) 
In the smaller mound (having, however, the larger excavation, necessitated 
by finding a grave away from the center of the base) was a grave 10 feet 2 inches 
long by 6 feet 7 inches wide, having a depth of 2 feet 8 inches below the base 
of the mound. This grave was not entirely cleared owing to the pouring in of 
water, the river being in flood. So far as determined, no artifacts accompanied 
a burial, which lay in a kind of quicksand. 
MOUNDS ох THE Banpy Prace, Pemiscor County, Mo. 
On the western side of Jim Ellis Cypress, a swamp about 1.5 mile WSW. in 
a straight line from Stewart, a settlement, are, on the Bandy Place, now be- 
longing to the Hon. William Hunter, of Benton, Mo., thirteen mounds forming 
an irregular line along the swamp. Adjoining Mr. Hunter’s property at the 
upper end are five other mounds, and on adjacent properties just below the 
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