The 15-acre site consists of the remains of a late Mississippian culture mound complex and village roughly dating to 1050-1475 AD.

The first group, who built the mounds and left the majority of artifacts, buried their dead with their bodies tightly flexed in hexagonal and circular stone box graves.

This group buried its dead with the bodies fully extended, on their backs, in rectangular stone box graves.

[5] Archaeological research done within the Middle Cumberland River Valley marks a virtual abandonment of the area around 1450.

It is unknown what caused this, but the large amount of broken pottery on the floors of their homes may indicate that they were forced to leave in a hurry.

[2] As of 2010, officials at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Archaeology, have been unable to identify modern tribal descendants of the inhabitants of the site.

It was left unexcavated in 1920 because of a lack of funding, although archaeologist William Myer believed its use to be ceremonial, and possibly the location of a chief's residence.

In this layer, archaeologists discovered a fire bed filled with ashes and broken animal bones, indicating that a structure had existed there before the mound was built over top of it.

Many items were found on this level, such as a metate and muller, arrowheads, shell tempered pottery, multiple fire beds, and objects made from deer bones.

[5] The building was an important civic structure, probably used for sacred rites and town gatherings, and had two rooms.

The woven cane matting was then covered inside and outside with a coating of clay plaster known as wattle and daub.

2 was in constant cultivation for at least 85 years, and as a result, only limited structural evidence exists for the final stage.

It is also important to note that a few burials from the later group of rectangular stone grave people were found close to the surface of Mound No.

These two graves were very different from the usual method of burial during the Mississippian period in the Middle Tennessee region.

Grave goods found with the deceased included five large shell beads and a clay pot.

The grave goods found with the second set of remains included a small effigy burial vase (somehow overlooked by the looters) and a mussel shell, which was most likely a spoon.

William Myer believed it to be a natural knoll in the field, given its shape by the removal of soil used for the construction of Mound No.

It is located about 300 feet (91 m) north of Boiling Spring Academy overlooking the bank of the Little Harpeth River.

There was no evidence of buildings or burials in this mound, although broken animal bones and pottery fragments were found scattered throughout the soil.

[5] Objects found in and around these depressions include bear teeth, arrowheads, broken animal bones, traces of plastered walls, stone disks, and a store of yellow ochre that was most likely used as body paint.

The child, thought to be about 12 years old, was found buried against the slab, with its head resting within the edges of the bowl.

Grave goods for these burials included conch shells, pottery, spearheads, playing dice crafted from deer bones, and a black stone female statuette.

[7] The remains of at least 21 individuals, along with their funerary objects, were removed from the Fewkes group site during a road construction project by the Tennessee Department of Transportation in 1998.

[2] Grave goods removed included ceramic ear plugs, effigy jars, projectile points, a drilled dog tooth and a bone awl.