

wbbb] ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN \\\ 



Artifacts from Burial No. 2, Mound No. 2, are shown in plate 

 64, a. The large ceremonial celt is 9 inches long and is made of 

 native Tennessee slate. It was apparently held in the hand at time 

 of burial. For positions of the other artifacts, three celts, mica, 

 shell cup, beads, awl and arrow points, see plate 58, b. The 14 

 arrow points are rough, triangular points of rather crude chipping. 

 The copper ear ornaments each consist of a wooden disk of 1.5 inches 

 diameter and 0.2 inch thick. A groove was cut about the edge of 

 the disk and a thin sheet of copper was spread over the outside and 

 crimped about the edges of the disk in the groove. While the copper 

 sheet was much oxidized, the wood was well preserved. In the 

 figure the outer face of one ornament is shown and the inner face 

 of the other with dowel pin, still preserved. 



Plate 64, b, shows rectangular shell pendants from Burial No. 1. 

 These range in size from 1.1 inches to 0.6 inch. The ear pins of 

 shell, which are 5 inches long, were taken from Burial No. 3, Mound 

 No. 2, as were the large shell beads made from the central column of 

 large conch shells. 



Plate 65, a, shows the sacrum of the skeleton from Burial No. 4. 

 A flint point was found embedded in the lower extremity of this 

 bone. It was photographed without being removed. This point was 

 a small triangular arrow 0.4 inch at the base and in length not over 

 0.8 inch. It would hardly be thought to be an efficient instrument 

 on an arrow designed to be used against man. 



Plate 66, a, shows fragments of matting taken from the cache pit in 

 Mound No. 2. One of the discoidals found in association, which was 

 split by the heat which burned this cache, is shown in upper lef thand 

 corner. The lower surface of this disk had received a deposit from the 

 ashes which were in contact with it. Where the disk was in contact 

 with the cane matting this deposit did not form. There was thus an 

 impression of the matting on it, as shown. 



Plate 68, a, shows a cache of periwinkle shells from a midden pit 

 and a cache of charred corncobs from Mound No. 2. 



Plate 68, &, shows four very similar artifacts made from the central 

 hollow cylinder of a hard bone. One of these, which is blackened by 

 fire, was taken from a cache of burned matting in Mound No. 2. This 

 implement had been broken in many small fragments by the action of 

 fire. It was not until it was restored that its nature was determined. 

 These pointed implements are believed to be spear points. The pointed, 

 end is quite sharp enough to be an efficient spear, and the basal end is 

 cut squarely off and reamed out inside as if to receive the end of a 

 blunt shaft. Each has a single hole drilled through the bone on one 

 side, as if it were to be attached to the shaft by a dowel pin. So far as 



