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Stone chips, 50; burnt broken stones, 20 preserved; 

 round stones, 11 preserved ; long stone, 1 ; arrowpoints, 

 6; arrowpoints (broken), 5; sinkers, 3; potsherds (two 

 pots), 26 pieces ; bone implements, 5 ; human bones and 

 teeth (1 adult, and 1 child), 2 qts. ; bones of various ani- 

 mals including those of the deer, moose (?), bear, wolf, 

 and two other carnivorous species ; several species of birds, 

 including the turkey ; a few bones of the turtle and of the 

 porpoise, and numerous fish bones, 3 qts. ; pierced shells 

 (Mya), several; charcoal and unidentilied substance. 



The Mollusks preserved w-ere : — 



Venus mercenaria^ Ostrea eduUs, Mya arenaria, Mactra 

 solidissima, Mytilus edulis, Crepidula Jornicata, Pecten 

 temiicoslaius, Purpura kqnllus, Natica heros, JSfatica dujp- 

 licata, N^eptunea islandica, Hyanassa obsoleta, Helix albo- 

 lahris, Anguispira alternata. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam remarked that the collection be- 

 fore us is one of great interest and importance. The 

 bringing together of relics from the shellheaps is a matter 

 of interest at any time, but to carefully collect and pre- 

 serve, as a complete exhibit, the entire contents of one 

 such heap is of vastly more value. It gives us import- 

 ant facts in the histor^^ of a family in one epoch. This 

 collection is in many ways a remarkable one. In the first 

 place it contains more stone implements than have been 

 found in all the other shellheaps of this vicinity investi- 

 gated by Wyman, Morse, Cooke and myself put together. 

 Of course the 03'ster was abundant in the neighborhood 

 when this heap was formed, although it is well known that 

 it is impossible to collect them in any numbers in this 

 vicinity now, and the Pecten, too, is now^ rare about our 

 bays. Among the shells preserved I notice several 

 pierced as if used for ornaments. Of the bone implements, 



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