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disks are a step in the division of labor in arrow- making. At a meeting 

 of t he State Archaeological Society at Wooster, September 5, 1878, Pro- 

 fessor Bead was appointed to co-operate with the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion in preparing the ethnological and archaeological history of Ohio. 



Boss, A. C, and Col. W. H. Ball. — Flint Bidge lies in Licking and 

 Muskingum Counties, about three miles southeastward from Newark, 

 and twelve to fifteen miles west-northwest from Zanesville. It extends 

 eight miles southwest by northeast, and is from one-fourth of a mile to 

 one mile wide. The ridge is cut by hollows, ravines, and gorges. Por- 

 tions of the highest land are comparatively level, and this plateau is 

 underlaid by ;i stratum of flint rock from 15 inches to 3 feet in thick- 

 ness. Besides this stratum are numerous flint bowlders standing up 

 several feet above the surface of the ground. On the exact level of the 

 flint are the " diggings," hundreds of which may be seen, which range 

 in depth from 1 or 2 to 30 feet, their depth depending upon the relation 

 of the flint stratum to the surface of the earth. The very deep diggings 

 are from the top of a hillock on the summit of the ridge. The trenches 

 are from a few feet to 30 feet across at the top, all sloping so gradually 

 that it would be easy to walk down them. From the deeper cuts the eart h 

 appeared to have been carried out ; the one from the top of the hillock 

 is still very deep, and was about 40 feet in perpendicular when completed, 

 with proportional width. In one portion was a drift 60 to 80 feet in 

 length, G to 8 feet wide, and 4 to 5 feet high. The excavation was pur- 

 sued with the same diligence when there was no flint as when the stra- 

 tum was found, and was of the same character, to the same level. Of 

 course, when the earth is below the flint level there is no evidence of 

 digging, but when the earth is above thai level the work extends to the 

 flint. These works follow the dip of the flint towards the east-northeast 

 until the hills became too high above the stratum. In a meadow, and 

 near a stream of water, on land very much lower than the ridge, occurred 

 a bed of crumbled flint and sandstone. This bed was about 14 inches 

 in depth, 7 feet across, and 15 to 18 feet in length. The sandstone was 

 near the north part and had been subject to great heat. A quantity of 

 ashes was mixed t hrough the whole bed. Several such beds are reported 

 in that vicinity, and were generally near water. No arrow-heads or 

 other objects made of flint occurred. Old, gnarly, full-grown oaks, some 

 of them three hundred years old, have sprouted and grown since these 

 excavations were made. There has not been any signs of a workshop 

 discovered in the last sixty years, but at the point usually sought by 

 visitors and curiosity hunters flint spalls cover the ground for acres. 

 Only one arrow head has been found there lor years. 



Wilkinson, E., Jr.— Sends notice of a fortification near -Mansfield, 

 Richland County; survey in preparation. 



WlLTHElS, C. T.— Tablets of burnt clay were found on farm of W. 

 Morrow, near Piqua. 



