862 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



No more flint exists in this direction. Directly north of the spur on 

 Bowman's farm, and separated from it by a deep, narrow ravine, is a spur 

 on the farm of E. H. Duncan, containing pits of the same character and 

 about the same extent. Immediately east of these, in timber belonging 

 to Joseph Duncan, are five or six large, deep excavations. Continuing 

 north, we come to the dei)ression spoken of as separating this area from 

 the main ridge. Lying parti}' in this is the farm of Capt. John Lough- 

 man. North of his house about an acre has been pretty thoroughly dug 

 over East of this in a bleared field, is about half an acre the flint from 

 which is a dark variety, approaching more nearly to that at the "shaft" 

 than at any other place on the ridge. This field is nearly a mile from 

 the blacksmith shop and close to the town house, located at the point 

 where the ridge road is crossed by the one leading from Black Hand Sta- 

 tion to Brownsville. East of the town house is the farm of Samuel 

 MeOracken, on the northern and eastern parts of which are two small 

 groups of pits, both comprising about an acre, on a spur extending 

 northward. 



Just beyond here commences the before-mentioned break in the stra- 

 tum of about three-fourths of a mile, the flint next appearing on the 

 farm of Lennox' Fisher, about a mile west of the Muskingum County line. 

 Some 300 yards east of his house are three large pits, which the owner 

 calls " i)onds," as they generally furnish water for his stock through 

 the summer. 



The bottom of these "ponds" is 5 or G feet below the surrounding 

 surface ; the original depth was at least twice or three times as great, 

 if they preserve'the same slope the exposed sides show. 



The dip of the stratum is more apparent here than at the western 

 end, as knolls 25 to 30 feet high are in the immediate neighborhood of 

 the pits. 



About one-fourth of a mile south of this, on the adjoining farm of 

 William Fisher, a piece of woodland contains 2 acres of pits, some of 

 which are 50 to 60 feet across, but seem to be of less depth than holes 

 of a corresponding size near the cross-roads. 



This is the last sight of aboriginal work on Flint Eidge within the lim- 

 its of Licking count3^ 



The pits being so scattered, and nearly all in dense timber, it is diffi- 

 cult to form an accurate estimate of their extent. Certainly they can- 

 not occupy a smaller area than 60 acres, counting only the space act- 

 ually excavated. 



Half a mile east of the line of Licking and Muskingum Counties, on 

 the farm of Mathias Drumm, are a few pits, one about 60 feet in diameter, 

 the others much smaller ; there are not more than a dozen of them. 



No others occur until the farm of Jacob Burrieris reached, about 3 

 miles from Fisher's place. A few small pits exist in the woods southeast 

 of his house. These are on the southern point of the eastern end of Flint 

 Ridge. 



