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one to two inches wide, six or seven long, and half an inch thick, with 

 rounded ends, highly poHshed, and generally with a neatly-drilled hole 

 in the center, have been found in and about these ancient works. 



Another class, of more recent date, consists of thousands of flint arrow- 

 heads, from a half inch to seven inches in length. These were unques- 

 tionably made by the modern tribes that overspread Northern Ohio, and 

 most of the material was procured from the ridges in Licking County. 

 One such nest was plowed up in Sullivan Township, three years since, 

 by Mr. W. S. Eiggs, containing 201 pear-shaped arrow-heads, neatly 

 finished and of an unusual style, haviug no notch for fastening them to 

 the shaft, and had the appearance of being intended for cutting. 



FLINT IMPLEMEXTS IN HOLMES COOTT, OHIO. 



By H. B. CasEj of Zoiidonville, Ohio. 



An interesting "find" of flint implements of the leaf-shaped pattern 

 was discovered in the summer of 1870 on the farm of Daniel Kick, 

 about half a mile north of the Lake Fork of Mohican Eiver, in Washing- 

 ton Township, Holmes County, Ohio. They were found in a pond or 

 basin-like depression formed in the glacial drift or river gravel which is 

 found in this, vicinity. The pond has no outlet, as the rim of the basin 

 is 20 feiet high. In order to collect the water, which, during most sea- 

 sons, covers the bottom of the pond, a ditch 4 feet deep was dug 

 through it. Near the bottom of the ditch were found the remains of an 

 old oak log lying across the cutting, and beside the log were found 

 ninety-six flint implements, all leaf-shaped, and of sizes from 2J to 5i 

 inches in length. They were colored by red oxide of iron, which ad- 

 hered very tenaciously to the flint, showing that a quantity of this ma- 

 terial had been deposited with them. This pond, in seasons of great 

 drought, becomes dry, but has not been so for several years. Were 

 these implements buried in the pond by the owner, or were they placed 

 beside the log and covered by the slow accumulations of the alluvial 

 deposits of centuries ? The pond never having had an outlet since the 

 deposition of the glacial drift, and the flints being found within a foot 

 of the bottom of the four feet of alluvial deposit, would indicate, if de- 

 posited upon the surface, an antiquity of three-fourths of the iiost-gla- 

 cial period, assuming that the alluvium was laid down uniformly, and 

 that the flints were placed beside the log and had not been buried, and 

 had not sunk to their place from higher up in the mud. These imple- 

 ments are now in the collection of the writer, who has furnished speci- 

 mens of the same to the National Museum at Washington.* 



* The implements were, iu all jirobability, iatenlionally buried, forming a deposit 

 or " cache." 



