238 Grave Mounds in North Carolina and East Tennessee. (Match, 
No. 8. An irregular layer of water-worn stones about four feet 
square. On top was a bed of charcoal three or four inches thick, 
-on and partially embedded in which were three skeletons, but 
showing no indications of having been in the fire. Scattered 
over these were discoidal stones, one sinall saucer-shaped dish, 
shells (one of which is engraved), pipes, shell beads and pieces of 
pottery. 
No. 9. A grave containing three skeletons, lying horizontally 
on their backs and side by side; the outer ones with their heads 
east and the middle one with the head west; no implements. 
No. 10. Horizontal, on the right side, head north, with stone 
implements in front of the face. 
No. 11. Doubled up, top of the head south, shell beads around 
the neck and celts at the feet. of 
No. 12. A grave containing seventeen skeletons, seven 
which had flat heads, two of the number children. Two of the 
adult heads were resting on engraved shells. 
In this grave were found four pots and two food cups, the han- 
dle of one representing an owl’s head and that of the other at 
eagle’s head. One of the small pots was inside a mice | 
Scattered among the skeletons were shell beads, poe 
discoidal stones, paint, &c. None of the skeletons were enc 
in stone graves. as) 
For the purpose of comparison I will now give the deste | 
of a single mound found on the bank of the Holston riven =. 
van county, East Tennessee. It is circular in form, thirty in | 
feet in diameter and five feet high; on the top was peas ct 
fourteen inches in diameter, the tree having been cut down sped it 
five years ago. This mound differed from those deson! pe 
having no pit below it; but in it, built on the natural D high, 
the ground, was a circular wall of cobble stones, three ee 
enclosing a space fourteen feet in diameter. Inside of ue 
twelve stone graves similar to those shown in Plate vill, peal 
them in the center and the other eleven equally spa 
near the wall, as shown in Fig. 3. amet 
The surface of the area enclosed by the circular W: pa ga | 
-ered to the depth of three inches with charcoal and 
built on this layer. oe | 
Each grave contained a single sitting skeleton; = moult? | 
neck of the central one were shell beads, and near We 
