ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 970 



[see Plate 62], and the exterior of the rock was iiu-rusted with a coinjiact, drab- 

 colored calcareo-.siliceons coatiug of half an inch iu thickness, which in some of 

 the specimens has not V)eeu entirely removed. Nearly all tin- Beardstowu disks 

 were roughened and discolored with patches of calcareous concretion almost as 

 hard and solid as the llint it^jself, indicative of undisturbed repose in their clay 

 envelopes for a great period of time."' 



Lake County. — Cache of 12 specimens. - 



SchnyJcr County. — Two barrels of specimens.' 



Peoria County, Millhrook Townskip. — Cache, number unknown.^ 



St. Clair County. — "The finest Indian mound in the State of Illinois is situated 3 

 miles northeast of the town of Lebanon, in St. Clair County, not far from the west 

 ern Ixirdcr of Looking-glass Prairie. In shape it is a truncated pyramid, or rathei a 

 l)aralleli)gram, measuring at its l)ase 400 feet in length and 2o0 feet in width, and 

 rising in perfect x>roporti(ms tothe height of 50 feet. The angles are still sharp and 

 well delined and the top level, comprising (approximately) an area of 80 by 150 feet, 

 which doubtless served as the base of some elaborate wooden structure. In the 

 summer of 1843 the proprietor of the land, Mr. Baldwin, in sinking a well near one 

 coiner of the mound, found, a few feet below the surface, packed closely together, 

 18 large Hint spades. These implements Avere broad, flat pieces of white or grayish 

 white llint, measuring, the smallest 9 inches in length by 5 inches in width, the 

 largest 15 by 7 inches. Thej' are nearly an inch in thickness in the middle, neatly 

 chipped to an edge all around, flat on one side and slightly convex on the other 

 One end of each flint is broader than the other, and the broad end is symmetrically 

 rounded, and polisheil as smooth as glass by loug-contmued use in sandy soil. The 

 luirrow end is rough and not so neatly flnished, showing no marks of wear, and was, 

 in all proV)ability, when the implement was in use, fastened in some sort of 

 handle. It can not be doubted that these flints were in part the tools used in mak- 

 ing the mound, and when the great work was tinished they were stored away in the 

 ground until again needed.'' " 



"In the early part of December, 1868, some laborers, while engaged in grading an 

 extension of Sixth street, in East St. Louis, came upon a deposit of Indian relics, 



* ' * flint tools, all of the hoe and shovel type, and " * * close by were 

 found several bowlders of flint and greenstone, weighing from 15 to 30 pounds each, 

 and many fragments of flint. The deposit was covered with from 18 to 24 inches of 

 black earth. * * * The implements formed a "nest" by themselves, and instead 

 of being packed close together were arranged with some regularity, overlapping 

 each other or standing edgewise and covering a circular space. The whole dejiosit 

 did not extend more than 7 or 8 feet on either side. The contractor neglected to 

 count the implements, but he thinks there were from 70 to 75 in all — some 50 hoes 

 and about 20 shovels. No other stone articles, such as arrow and spear heads, toma- 

 hawks, etc., had been deposited with the agricultural implements.' " 



"In the summer of 1869 some children amusing themselves near the barn on the 

 farm of Mr. Oliver II. Mullen, in the ueighl)orhood of Fayetteville, St. Clair County, 

 dug into the ground and discovered a deposit of 52 disk-shaped flint implements, 

 which lay closely heaped together.'" 



' J. F. Snyder, Smithsonian Report, 1876, pp. 438, 439. 



2 Foster's Prehistoric Ivaces of the United States of America, j). 209 



'George Trauman, Smithsonian Report, 1879, it. 4.S5. 



^ Cyrus Thomas's Catalogue, p. 63. 



■'■J. F.Snyder, Smithsonian Report, 1876, p. 434. 



'Charles Rau, Smithsonian Report, 1868, j)p. 402,403, 



'Jdcm., 1872, p. 402. 



