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Scott County — Continued. 



Objects of Copper. — The axes are of three shapes — with flat 

 sides, plano-convex, double-convex. All are simply hammered 

 from native copper. 



Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 14, 16, 19, and 20 are more or less cov- 

 ered with cloth ; 6 and 8. found together, were also cloth-cov- 

 ered, but were scraped on finding. 



Eleven copper awls were found in mounds (with one excep- 

 tion). They are of ordinary types but some are bent at extrem- 

 ities. 



Thin copper hemispheres; one, o.S inch diameter, weighs 34 

 grains; the other, 0.5 inch diameter, weighs 10 grains. With 

 them was found a silver hemisphere o. 7 inch diameter and weigh- 

 ing 13^ grains. (These came from the Cook Farm Mounds — 

 No. 2.) 



A curious copper implement was found partly washed out from 

 the Cook Farm Group — No. 3. It was produced by hammering 



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