SKETCH OF FLINT RIDGE, LICKING COUNTY, OHIO. 865 



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The pieces thus fitted for working were then mostly carried to the fin- 

 ishing shops, though, as above stated, the whole work seems to have 

 been sometimes completed in one place. 



These finishing shops are characterized by the smaller fragments, 

 thin flakes, and broken or unfinished implements, very seldom found 

 in the blocking-out shops. The hammers found in them are generally 

 of small size, seldom exceeding 8 ounces in weight, and are of harder 

 or smoother stone than those found in the other class of shops. 



The blocking-out in some cases was done at the pits whence the raw 

 material was obtained; but generally a convenient spot was chosen to 

 which all the larger pieces from pits close around were carried, rough 

 worked, and then taken to one of the finishing shops, which are less 

 numerous than the others. 



Although these shops are to be found at many places on the ridge, 

 only the more important, those where the greatest amount of work was 

 done, will be mentioned here, as a study of the places named will give a 

 visitor as good an understanding of the method of work as would an 

 inspection of scores of similar jilaces. The relation of the work-shops 

 to each other and to the pits will be readily perceived from an inspec- 

 tion of the map. 



The blocking-out shops show material scattered over from 5 to 10 

 acres in extent; the others, though covering less ground, show a greater 

 amount of work on an equal area. 



Of the first sort, then, the principal are located as follows: 



On the farm of John G. Loughman, lying along the south side of the 

 ridge road and just south of the western limit of excavation. 



Northeast of the blacksmith shop at the cross-roads. The work seems 

 to have been done here as soon as the flint was quarried out, and the 

 fragments are scattered among the pits. Along the side of the road and 

 within a few feet of the shop is a large pile, many wagon-loads, of an- 

 gular fragments. 



Northwest of the pits on Bowman's farm, and again between this 

 shop and Iden's farm, at which place the two kinds of work seem to 

 have been carried on at the same time, or perhaps, better to say, where 

 a portion of the material, after being blocked out, was finished up, while 

 the greater part was carried elsewhere for the finishing touches. 



On McCracken's farm, within the limits of the pits mentioned as be- 

 ing north and east of his house. 



On the farm of Lennox Fisher, between the pits on his place and 

 those on William Fisher's laud, is another work- shop combining the 

 two kinds of work. 



At Drumm's, east of Fisher's. Here the flint was blocked out at the 

 pits. 



Finally, the last blocking outplace of importance is on Burner's farm. 

 The stone from the pits north, and those on the Brookover farm east, 

 was carried to what now forms part of several fields, and worked up 

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