972 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Chester County. — Edward T, Ingram, of Marslialltou, discovered a cache of 95 leaf- 

 shaped iniitlciuents (Division I, Class 15), square at the base, ai to 7 inches long, 2i 

 to ;5 inches wide, and about three-eighths of an inch thick. Thoy are the counter- 

 part of ligs. 102 and 103, and also of No. 3 on Plato 29, Class B, the Abbott speci- 

 mens heretofore dcscrilted, in this classilication. Mr. Ingram made a division of 

 the implements and sent (il of them to the U. S. National Museum, where the 

 author has set them up in the form of a cache, as they were found. It is represented 

 in section, as though it had been cut in the center jjerpendicnlarly from toj) to bot- 

 tom and one-half the earth taken out, leaving the implements projecting as in their 

 original location. The cast is of plaster, reproducing the earth. The original 

 implements are used to represent the exposed half of the cache, leaving the imagina- 

 tion to supply the rest, which are supposed to l)e within the bank of earth and not to 

 lie seen. They were laid Hat on their sides, their points to the center, overlapping 

 each other where they came in contact. The entire cache is about 15 or 16 inches in 

 width — a little more than twice the length of the implements. They were laid in a 

 circle, nine or ten of them. This made nine or ten layers and was eijual to a height 

 of 11 inches. Tlie top layer was a])Out the depth of a furrow beneath the surface. 

 All former plowing had escaped them, but on the present occasion a deeper furrow 

 had turned them up, and so they were discovered. Plate 59 represents the plan of 

 the cache and shows one layer of the implemcmts. 



Cache of 14 or more leaf-shaped (Division I, Class B) argillite implements, found 

 near Brandywine Ci'eek, in Chester County, about 2 miles irom ^^'est Chester, 

 Pennsylvania. A. Sharpless. (Cat. No. 62374, U.S.N.M.) 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Cache of 7 stemmed, shouldered, but not barbed (Division III, Class B), imple- 

 ments of (juartzite. Found in a bank 2 feet below the surface opposite the navy-yard, 

 District of Columbia. (W. llallett Phillips collection, Cat. No. 195926, U.S.N.M.) 



MARYLAND. 



Howard County. — Fifty-two specimens. 



Anne Arundel County. — Five caches containing, respectively, 26, 25, 27, 11, and 4 

 specimens. The foregoing caches are reported by Mr. J. D. Mc(iuire, of Ellicott 

 City, Maryland, and the implements are in his collection. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



A cache of 400 leaf-shaped implements (Class B) is reported by Dr. J. F. Snyder, 

 of Virginia, Cass County, Illinois, as having been found in West Virginia, locality 

 not given.' 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Caldwell and Alexander County line. — Dr. .1. M. Spainhour, of Lenoir, North Caro- 

 lina, found a cache of 597 leaf-shaped arrowpoints near the Caldwell and Alexander 

 County line, North Carolina, 16 miles east of Lenoir, in a circular hole in the ground 

 9 inches in diameter, 25 inches deep. They occui)ied 13 inches of the excavation, 

 which was lilled Avith earth to the surface. These implements vary in length from 

 21 to 4 inches, in width from 1^: to l.V inches, and are i to | inch thick. The material 

 is porphyritic felsite (called rhyolite when it shows the How structure), used so 

 much by the aborigines from Maine to Georgia. (Cat. No. 149662, U.S.N.M.) 



Fifteen leaf-shaped (Division I, Class B) rhyolite implements, found en cache sur- 

 rounding a spring, as lepresented in Plate 60, at the head of a rivulet near the foot 



' Smithsonian Report, 1881, p. 565. 



