800 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



a short distance south of the North Truro station, there was reported 

 to be an Indian burying ground. These railroad cuts are through Httle 

 hills of modified drift, close to the shore, near two little x)onds, and 

 only a little way from the 113th milestone from Boston. In both these 

 cuts were many traces of Indian settlements, such as broken and un- 

 finished arrow and spear heads, scattered shells, chips of quartz, por- 

 j)hyry cores, and unworked pebbles of the same stone, together with 

 bones, some of which were split lengthwise. The layer of earth in 

 which these occurred varied from 1 to 2^ feet below the surface, the 

 drift containing none except where the bank had washed down and 

 mixed with the lower soil. 



Although there were obtained no human bones here, yet the next 

 day, at South Truro, the railroad section man in charge at the time the 

 banks were cut through produced a fine arrow-head, and said that 

 while digging in one place they found the bones of about three Indians, 

 and got one good skull, besides a great number of stone chips and 

 arrow-heads. 



The next jAace where shells and arrow-heads occurred was at Well- 

 fleet, at a cut a little north of the railroad bridge. In the rich bla,ck 

 soil, about 6 inches below the ui)per edge of the cut, on both sides of 

 the track, and in the earth thrown out of a trench in which railroad 

 sleepers were placed on end to prevent snow drifting in, were found at 

 least 2 quarts of stone chips and arrow-heads. With a few hours to 

 give to the search and with one or two shovels to turn over the surface 

 soil, this spot would very likely j^rove richer in implements than the 

 North Truro locality. The latter jilace is much better known, and 

 nearly everything has been picked up as fast as it washes out. 



A little further on, close by the shore of Wellfleet Harbor, which 

 jjuts in here, was found an arrow-head that had probably been shot at 

 something, as the point was splintered by a direct blow on the tip. 



On the bluifs along Wellfleet Harbor and on the plains at Orleans, 

 off the road which runs south of the Brewster road, many arrow-heads 

 have been found. 



In i:)arts of Brewster and on a little island near the source of Red 

 Eiver and upon its banks further down many old camps, arrow-making 

 spots, and shell heaps have also been discovered. 



The next day, at Harwich Port, was spent in hunting arrow-heads 

 near the mouth and in the fields about Allen's Eiver. No attemjit was 

 made to cross to Trous, the bluffs which lie just across on the west 

 side of the stream, as it was not then known to be a good place for In- 

 dian relics. There were found here one hatchet-head, one spear-head, 

 several arrow-heads, a shell heap containing charcoal and bones broken 

 in lengths, besides a few scattered shells near the mouth of the stream. 

 A letter from a person who accompanied this search states that, in the 

 shell heap found that day, he has recently dug up ten more arrow-heads, 

 some pieces of stone pots, and bones that look like deer antlers. He 



