ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 971 



rc])()rts tbiit at the old ''Iroquois fort," in tlio town of Angelica, Allegany County, 

 al)out l.V miloa north of the N<'\v York Lake Erie and Western Railroad station 

 of Belvidere were found "many arrow and probal)ly spear heads, unearthed from 

 a small hole near the surface of the ground some distance south or southwest of the 

 iuclosure. This was done a few years ixgo." Also, "there was another and proba- 

 bly similar work [fort] 2 or 3 miles south of the Belvidere 'fort' and on the 

 outskirts of the village of Belmont. * * * \ large number of stone implements 

 were found in a hole or cache near by, several years ago." 



I'.roome County. — A cache of arrowpoints, knives, and axes, some in jx-rfeet condi- 

 tion but others broken, found near Binghamton.' 



Montgomery County. — Mr. Percy M. \'au Epps, of Glenville, New "^ork, reports- a 

 cache of 117 arrowpoints on the farm of Mr. Thomas Romeyn, in the town of Amster- 

 dam, near a spring. They lay about 6 inches below the surface, on a bed of ashes 3 

 inches thick, which rested on a hearth or fireplace, about 10 feet Sfjuare, of cobble- 

 stones from the drift. The arrowpoints average about 3 inches in length and are of 

 dark-blue and gray Hint, leaf-shaped. Mr. A'an Epps adds: "Such hoards of arrow- 

 points are fre([uent in this vicinity. I know of four instances in a radius of as many 

 miles." 



Cache of 120 triangular implements (Dixisiou II), straight base, concave edges, of 

 black Hint, from Amsterdam, Montgomery County, found by Mr. Percy Van Epps. 

 (Cat. No. 169621, U.S.N.]M.) 



Saratoga County. — Cache of 90 leaf-shaped imi)lement8 (Division I, Class 1?) of 

 hornstone, from Saratoga County, New York, found by II. B. McWilliamson (Cat. 

 Nos. 170333, 170573, U.S.N.M.), represented by 16 and 62 implements, respectively. 



(Jbwego County. — On the line dividing the towns of Volney and Schroeppel was an 

 earthwork on a hill. A long wall, separating the hill from a marsh on the east, still 

 remains. Arrowpoints of flint, en caclie, have been plowed up.' 



NEW JERSEY, 



Burlington County. — Cache of 300 triangular arrowpoints (Division II), straight 

 base, convex edges, of gray flint. Found on the south bank of Rancoeas Creek, near 

 Lumbertou, Burlington County, New Jer.sey, by W; H. Chambers. (Cat. No. 98740, 

 U.S.N.M.) Average size, 3f by 1^ by -^\, inches. 



Mercer County. — In IS61 a farmer near Trenton, New Jersey, while plowing, dis- 

 covered a cache of stone implements about 15 inches below the surface. Dr. Abbott 

 was notified and repaired to the }ilace, secured the collection, and made a full 

 description of the deposit. ^ The collection numbered about 150 specimens. They 

 were of jasi^er, finely chiiiped, leaf-shaped, with a square base (Division I, Class B), 

 and varied in size from 5^ to 7 inches in length, 21 to 3 iuchea in width. Two- 

 thirds of the number were arranged in a series of concentric circles, eachi circle 

 fitting within the other, and they stood upright on their bases. The other third lay 

 flat on their sides and were so placed as to form a wall on the outside. 



Trenton. — Mr. Ernest Yolk excavated an extensive village site in the neighborhood 

 of Trenton, between that and Dr. Abbott's house and between the road and the bluff. 

 Mr. \'olk cites as evidence against the theory of rejects that ho found in a single 

 cache, 2h feet below the surface, where it had evidently been placed for safety, a 

 l)ile of 15 pieces of chipped argillite, l)ut one of which couldhave been a completed 

 implement. It was somewhat leaf-shaped. All the rest would have passed, accord- 

 ing to the theory, for rejects, but were reallj^ selected and secreted, intended, doubt- 

 less, to be used at a future time for making implements. 



' Frank M. Edwards, American Archieologist, August, 1898, p. 221. 



^American Anti(iuarian, III, p. 57. 



^W. M. Beauchamj), Smitlisonian Re])ort, 1881, p. 649. 



•'Academy of Natural Sciences, Pliiladelphia, 0(;tober 27, 1863, p. 278. 



