236 Grave Mounds in North Carolina and East Tennessee. (March, 
No. 16. Too much decayed to determine the position. 
No. 17. Four skeletons in one grave, horizontal, heads toward 
the east and large rocks lying on the legs below the knees; no 
implements. 
No. 18. Two skeletons in one grave, heads west, faces down, 
knees drawn up; no implements, 
No. 20. Sitting, with face toward the east, walled in, a large 
rock lying on the feet (though this may have fallen from the 
wall); no implements. 
No. 21. Sitting, walled in, over the head, but under the cap- 
stone of the vault, a handful of flint arrow-heads. 
No. 22. Doubled up with the head between the feet 
“A” A solid mass of boulders, oval-shaped, thirty-two inches 
long, twenty-two inches wide and twenty-four inches high, saat 
ing on the bottom of the pit. No ashes or other indications 0 
fire about it. 
Fragments of pottery, mica, galena, charcoal, red and black 
paint and stone chips were found scattered in small quantities 
through the earth which filled the pit. All the celts were more 
or less polished. ge 
“ The Lenoir Burial Pit”—This is a circular burial pit gp? 
to those described, but level on the surface. It is on the farm : 
Mr. R. T. Lenoir, same county. A diagram is given 1 Fig å 
Diameter twenty-seven feet, depth three and a half feet, an 
perfect circle, sides nearly perpendicular. The dirt in this case, 
in the others, was all thrown out. Le 
No. t. A bed of charred or rather burnt bones, rest 
space three feet long, two feet wide and about one gon to 
“The bones were so thoroughly burned that it was pare ; 
_ determine whether they were human or animal.” Benes sree 
bed the yellow sand was baked to the depth of two oF 
inches. Under the bones was a shell gorget. “ot 
No. 2. A skeleton in a sitting posture facing north-east, nS 
near the mouth and a polished celt over the head. she nek 
No. 3. Sitting, facing east, with shell beads around t 
and also around the arms just below the shoulders. on the 
No. 4. Horizontal, on the back, head east and nee 
concave surface of an engraved shell, “ conch shell” (2 ‘ground 
versa), at the side of the head, and copper and shell 
the neck. 
