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Georgia. They ai-e made of pieces of potstone and have no definite forms, being 

 recognizable as sinkers only by the groove that surrounds them. Colonel Charles 

 C. Jones has drawn particular attention to these relics.^= Indeed, the original of 

 Fig. 274 was presented to me by that gentleman, who found it, with many objects 

 of a similar character, in a relic-bed at the junction of the Great Kiokee Creek 

 and the Savannah River, in Columbia County of the above-named state. 



Fig. 275. — A smaller specimen, perhaps used as a sinker for a fishing-line. 

 It was found by Colonel Jones on the right bank of Keg Creek, near its confluence 

 with the Savannah, in Columbia County, and belongs to his collection. 



He also found in Georgia notched potstone sinkers (like the original of Fig. 

 260), and quite a number of perforated ones, made of the same easily-worked 

 material. These latter generally consist of flat, smooth pieces of indefinite, but 

 mostly roundish, outline, which are an inch or less in thickness, and measure 

 from three to six inches in diameter. Each has a single perforation, either in 

 the centre or near the edge of the stone. The holes are usually drilled from two 

 sides, and narrowing in the middle, where they measure about half an inch in 

 diameter. Specimens of this kind have been found almost in all parts of the 

 United States where potstone occurs ; but they were also made of other materials. 



Fig. 276. — Stone sinker. North Carolina. 



Fig. 276. — A specimen of the class of relics usually considered as sinkers. 

 It is a water-worn, flat piece of potstone, approaching an oval in outline, and not 

 quite an inch thick near the hole, which is placed an inch and three-fourths from 

 the broader end, and drilled from both sides. It was obtained in Mitchell 

 County, North Carolina, and presented by General J. T. Wilder. 



* Jones : Antiquities of the Southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia Tribes ; New York, 1873 ; p. 338. 



