866 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



A great amount of work is indicated hereby the large territory covered 

 by the chips and the number of hammers of all sizes, from 2 or 3 ounces 

 to 15 pounds, scattered on every hand. 



In regard to the finishing shops, there is scarcely a farm, or even a 

 field, in all this region where evidences cannot be found of the fact that 

 weapoDS were finished up, or at least dressed to some extent. Partially 

 finished or broken specimens, spalls, and flakes may be gathered almost 

 anywhere ; unfortunately, such are, now, about all that can be picked 

 up. Collectors from various places have been here so often and in such 

 numbers, and have paid boys such fancy prices for " flints," that the 

 ground is kept pretty well searched over. Indeed, when the ground is 

 plowed in thespring, boys hunting "flints" are almost as numerous as 

 the blackbirds following the plow. 



The locations of the more important ones will be given : 



On the Burrier farm is a knoll of about 10 acres, south of his house, 

 on which the flakes are scattered thickly. The finishing up of nearly 

 all the flint quarried in Muskingum County (except that from the few 

 pits on Drumm's place) seems to have been done here. 



Some 30 rods east of the pits on the Drumm farm is a strip of high 

 ground containing some flakes and spalls — not many, but still in as great 

 quantity as the limited number of excavations would lead one to ex- 

 pect. • 



In addition to the shop named on Fisher's place as combining the 

 two kinds of work, is one of small extent, on a knoll north of the three 

 pits, and another west of this, in what is now an orchard, where con- 

 siderable work has been done. 



Just east of the town house is a small area where the flint from the 

 pits in that vicinity seems to have been finished. Southwest of this a 

 limited space on Capt. John Loughman's farm has flakes quite thickly 

 spread. 



On Iden's farm is a field of 10 acres where abundant chips and flakes 

 show that on this spot the finishing touches were given to all the flint 

 from his, Duncan's, and Bowman's farms. 



At John G. Loughman's house is about 1 acre thickly covered with 

 pieces of all the colors to be found in this region, while on the same 

 farm ,some 40 rods west, on the point containing the large, deep pits, is 

 the most interesting spot of all. Hundreds of implements, in all stages 

 of finish, have been found here, and each fresh plowing seems to expose 

 them in undiminished numbers. As deep as a plow can go these speci- 

 mens are found, and in such numbers that the jingling noise made by 

 them sounds as though one were plowing through a lot of castings. At 

 the side of the field nearest the edge of the hill the spalls are said to have 

 been piled up in a mound before cultivation scattered them, as though the 

 " ancient arrow-maker " had either thrown the fragments on every side of 

 him, and thus gradually elevated himself, or else had heaped all the flakes 

 and unfinished or broken specimens into a single pile. Over an acre 



