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On this floor of hard clay were several areas showing the print of 

 split cane laid as a floor covering, as may be seen in plate 36, c. The 

 finding of fine white sand on portions of this floor suggested that it 

 was used as a floor covering. 



Pottery 



The small amount of pottery from this site was in a poor state of 

 preservation. The sherds show only plain and grass-paddled impres- 

 sions. Two round handles were found. The total amount recovered 

 was too small to warrant very definite conclusions. One badly dis- 

 integrated biconcave quartz discoidal was found. 



Conclusions 



It would appear that Site No. 8, because of multiple construction on 

 the mound site, had once been the center of an important village. 

 From the nature of the topography, if any village ever existed ero- 

 sion has probably destroyed all evidence of it. However, it was a 

 matter of regret that conditions did not permit excavation within the 

 cultivated area about the mound. The manner of erecting buildings 

 here seems quite similar to the other sites described as having the 

 "small-log" type of construction. From this we would assume that 

 here, too, the town house was "earth covered" and the mound raised 

 only by the collapse of such earth-covered structure. 



Site No. 9.— HAKKIS FAKM MOUNDS 



The Harris farm is on Cedar Creek Koad about 9 miles east of 

 La Follette. It lies in a rolling country of tall red-clay hills, on the 

 east bank of Powell Kiver, 13 miles upstream from its mouth. The 

 soil is fertile and most of the area in Cedar Creek Valley has long 

 been in cultivation. Plate 37, a, shows the actual site with working 

 parties in the middle distance, and gives a view of the topography of 

 the region. The Harris farm lies on a broad sloping ridge sur- 

 rounded on three sides by high hills, which rise nearly 300 feet higher 

 than its highest point. On the east the land slopes down rapidly to 

 the level of Powell Kiver. With the flooding of Powell Kiver the 

 Harris site will be covered with water to a depth of about 60 feet. 



Archaeological interest here centered in two low mounds on the 

 central ridge, about 600 feet east of the river. They were in a field 

 which had long been in cultivation and which had been plowed in the 

 fall in anticipation of spring planting. The long cultivation of this 

 area had assisted erosion to such an extent that the mounds appeared 

 only as gentle elevations on the ridge when viewed against the sky 



