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distinguishable from the early type by a distinct advance in 

 manufacture and the absence of patina. A considerable time 

 must have elapsed for this difference in workmanship and age. 

 The number of specimens found at this level was so small, 

 although representing a number of types, that additional 

 excavations should be made in this area in order to determine 

 whether this culture may be rightly called intermediate. Speci- 

 mens of modern points of various material from the top stratum 

 are illustrated in (A). 



Clearer evidence than that furnished by the points is 

 offered by small sherds of pottery found in the intermediate 

 level. (See Plate XX, C.) No traces of pottery were found in 

 the lowest level. The pottery of the intermediate culture was 

 quite distinct from that of the modern Lenape, many bits of 

 which were found on the surface. (See Plate XX, B.) The 

 fragments from the intermediate level were composed of red 

 clay and pounded steatite, the latter composing more than 

 half the bulk. The red clay could have been obtained from 

 small strips of the same running through the yellowish .soil, 

 Judging from its consistency it had been simply sun-dried 

 and not baked. It could be easily scratched with the finger 

 nail. Nevertheless the fragments showed a uniform thickness, 

 and one piece showed the curve of a rim. It is possible that 

 here we have the very beginning of pottery among these people 

 and the steatite, which is not used to temper the recent pottery, 

 marks the transition from the bowls of that material used for 

 similar purposes. 



