gO BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 118 



Conclusions 



From the evidence presented, Site No. 5 is obviously a village site 

 which seems to have been occupied by dwelling houses before the 

 central mound was erected. The rectangular houses were made of 

 small logs, lashed together at the top and probably thatched with 

 cane and grass. There seems to have been no evidence to show that 

 they were covered with earth. Later, town houses were built on 

 the village site, on ground formerly occupied by dwellings. These 

 town houses were of the "small-log" type. The wall logs were set in 

 trenches and bent and lashed together at the top. They were earth- 

 covered so that the mound grew in height with the collapse of each 

 successive building on the site. While the construction here was 

 quite like that reported from Site No. 2, yet it differed from it in 

 one character which was found only on this site, namely, the use 

 of stone in trenches. This feature of the construction is illustrated 

 in figure 19. Beside the horizontal log at the bottom of the trench, 

 large stones were also placed in the bottom of the trench, outside 

 the structure, to brace the horizontal log. This construction was 

 used in whole or in part on three of the four town houses associated 

 with this mound. The only one in which stones were not used had 

 a subterranean floor, and the logs were set in the hardpan. 



Site No. 6.— HILL FAEM STONE MOUNDS 



Harvey Hill farm is on the north side of Clinch River about three- 

 fourths of a mile south of Rule, Union County, Tenn. 



This site is interesting because of the presence of three small 

 mounds made of earth and stone. Mound No. 1 is about 900 feet 

 north of Clinch River. Mounds Nos. 2 and 3 are about 500 feet 

 distant from the river and some 400 feet southeast from Mound 

 No. 1. 



Mound No. 1 had been built up of earth and limestone slabs. It 

 was circular, about 26 feet in diameter, and had been very much 

 disturbed. Local residents reported that it had been dug into sev- 

 eral times. In a test pit 10 feet wide and 11 feet long, sunk to the 

 disturbed depth of 5 feet, the humus line was found to be 36 inches 

 below the original mound surface. 



Mound No. 3, also made of earth and stone slabs, had been prac- 

 tically destroyed by cultivation. Its existence was shown only by 

 midden soil about 6 inches deep and scattered stone slabs. 



Mound No. 2 was a circular mound about 40 feet in diameter and 

 about %y 2 feet deep. The mound was on the line of a rail fence and, 

 because of three large cedar trees growing on its surface, it had been 



