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ANCIENT MONUMENTS. 



Copper axes similar in all respects to those 

 here described have been found at various places 

 in Ohio. One of them, now in the possession of 

 a gentleman of Hillsboro', is of the same shape 

 with Fig. 82 ; it weighs two pounds. It was 

 found near the great hill-work in Highland 

 county (Plate V). Another, corresponding 

 with the above, is in the possession of R. 

 Buchanan, Esq., of Cincinnati. It was found, 

 in connection with six others, a few miles north 

 of Yellow Springs, in the valley of the Little 

 Miami river. They were discovered in exca- 

 vating a cellar, three or four feet beneath the 

 surface. Large trees had been growing on the 

 spot. Another axe, of different shape, was found 

 not many years since, in a mound near Deer- 

 field, on the Little Miami. It was worked up 

 by the village blacksmith. Still another, of 

 comparatively rude workmanship, is deposited 

 in the Cincinnati Museum. The circumstances 

 under which it was discovered are unknown. 



Drills or Gravers. — Among the remains on the 

 sacrificial altars, have been found graving tools or rude 

 chisels of copper. These were formed by hammering 

 the copper into rods, with sharp tapering points or with 

 chisel-shaped edges. Full size sketches of several of these are 

 presented. Fig. 85. Nos. 1 and 2 were found in the long mound, 

 No. 3 " Mound City," in connection with numerous other 

 remains. 



An implement of copper, identical in shape with No. 1, although 

 somewhat larger in size, is deposited in the Philadelphia Museum. 

 It was taken from a mound in Alabama. 



Nos. 3, 4, and 5, were discovered in making excavations in the works 

 at Marietta. The character of each of these is sufficiently well explained 

 by the engravings. No. 1 measures eight inches in length, and weighs 

 about two ounces. No. 2 is less in size, and seems to have been used as 

 a graver. It cuts the softer varieties of stone with facility. Whether 

 those found at Marietta were designed for similar purposes, or were 

 intended to be bent together for ornaments, it is not undertaken to say. 

 That some instruments, of similar character with these, were used by 

 the mound-builders, in their carvings in stone, will be apparent when we 

 come to speak of their sculptures. 



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