746 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



a number of large axes, weigbing from 10 to IG pounds, have been found 

 here. Mr. James Rucker has one in his cabinet with about 4 inches of 

 the bit broken off, found by Mr. Henry Brown, that weighs, as it is, 12J 

 pounds. No doubt before it was broken it would have weighed IG 

 pounds. The author has one in his cabinet, made of striped slate, 

 plowed up on the 26th day of August, that weighs 10 pounds. Mr. 

 Theodore Campbell gave the author a mortar that holds very near a half 

 gallon, the finest specimen of the kind he has ev^er seen. It was plowed 

 up in 1848, by Mr. Taylor, " a former owner of this farm," who at that 

 time picked the date on the bottom of it. Very few arrow-points are 

 found on this farm or those joining it on the north, east, or south. 

 Through the field in which this shop is located an old Indian trail 

 passes to an Indian camping-ground due west, about 200 yards. 

 Some of the older inhabitants of this and that neighborhood still 

 recollect some of the incidents that transpired at this camp while 

 the aborigines yet roamed at will up and down this valley. 



Number Gl is a workshop in part, Sec. 29, T. 12 N., R. 2 W., on the 

 second terrace formation of the river, and on Mr. Levi Bond's farm, 

 just north of his residence, about 300 yards. It is about 500 yards 

 northwest of Quakertowu, on the north side of the road that leads from 

 Quakertown to Alquina ; also on the west side of Bond's Oreek. A lit- 

 tle to the south is an excellent spring of pure water running the whole 

 year round. A little northeast of this shop was the once great sand 

 mound spoken of. The articles of manufacture of this shop were the ax, 

 pestle, celt, and hammer-stone. This was one of the most productive 

 shops along the valley. There has been gathered here, from time to 

 time, at least a half wagon load of domestic implements, and yet every 

 year that this field is cultivated Mr. Bond op his sons pick up about two 

 dozen implements. Almost every cabinet in this section and that of 

 the State, museum contains typical specimens taken from this notorious 

 workshop which covers about 2J acres. This space is covered with a 

 mass of chipped and broken stones ; but to my knowledge or that of Mr. 

 Bond's, no ornamental piece has yet been found within the field in which 

 these remains are located. Northwest of this, a quarter of a' mile, is a 

 cemetery which will be mentioned further on. 



Number G2 is a workshop in Sec. 4, T. 11 N., R. 2 W., in the north- 

 west part of the southeast quarter section, on the second terrace forma- 

 tion of the river, and on Mrs. E. Scott's farm. It stands northeast of her 

 residence and on the north side of Hannah's Creek. The articles of 

 manufacture have been pestles and celts, those implements predomi- 

 nating. But very few axes have been found here. The area of this 

 shop is about 1 or IJ acres. A vast amount of broken cobble-stone 

 covers the spot. Very little of the striped slate-stone is found here. 

 No ornaments or fragments thereof has ever been discovered on this 

 piece of land, arrow-points also being very few in number. Occasion- 

 ally one is picked up in the spring or fall of the year, when plowing is 

 going on. 



