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There was no iron met with by him, except a little pick, or 
hatchet, (now in my possession) about seven or eight inches in 
length, the edges of which are not very hard. A drawing of it is 
annexed, fig. 1. 
The only piece of wheelwork discovered is the remains of a 
spir-nut, or more properly of a trundle-head, which is a good deal 
mutilated. It appears to have been composed of staves rather than 
of spokes or rungs, and these staves have been carved out of a solid 
block of oak, as represented in fig. 2. This figure represents the 
trundle and lower part of its spindle, B, which is also of oak, 
carved out of the same block with staves, and appears to have been 
burnt at the extremity in order, as I suppose, to render it hard. 
The upper and remaining part of the spindle seems to have been 
inserted into the square hole, A, which is morticed into the upper 
part of the trundle-head. | 
The only mill-stone found is that represented in fig. 3, having a 
conical and plane side, the latter of which is very rude and un- 
even. ‘This stone must have been used as the under or bed stone, 
the conical side of which was the working one, as it still has visi- 
ble upon it the circular marks of the friction occasioned by the 
running stone, besides that the flat surface is too uneven to have 
been ever used in that way. In this stone the perpendicular height 
of the cone is about six inches, although the stone itself is not more 
than two feet and eight inches, in diameter. As it has no furrows, 
this fall of six inches to a base of sixteen was very necessary to 
discharge the corn when ground. The upper or running stone 
must of course haye been concave, to match the shape of the one 
already described. 
Fig. 4. represents what I take to have been the cistern or trough 
for discharging the water upon the waterwheel. It was carved out 
