THE ARCHEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK l6/ 



being the only ones found. In almost all sites in the vicinity the 

 bones are almost as tough and hard as when the meat was stripped 

 from them several hundred years ago. 



The pottery from Burning Spring is in most ways similar to all 

 early Iroquoian pottery in composition and design. A critical study 

 and comparison does not show it to be different in any essential 

 respect. The pipe pottery is somewhat different in form and 

 design from any Erie pipe pottery from sites in which European 

 articles are found. The bowls are thinner and more capacious. 

 The designs on the earthen pots are numerous and a great deal of 

 ingenuity is displayed in ornamentation by means of dots, single 

 lines, parallel lines, oblique lines and dashes. Specimens showing 

 fabric markings, those showing imprints made by a cord wound 

 stick, and also those on which there are imitation cord marks are 

 numerous. Pottery tempered by mixing with the clay, pulverized 

 flint, quartz mica schist and shell and coarse sand are among the 

 specimens. A number of sherds perforated on either side of a 

 fracture were discovered. Sinews or bark cords were probably 

 passed through these holes to bind the break which was cemented 

 by pitch. 



The stone implements are most numerous and varied. Many 

 hammerstones were found. These were usually of natural discoidal 

 pebbles pitted or picked on either side to afford a better hold. The 

 collection contains a number of anvils bearing the marks of flints 

 that have been chipped upon them. Two grinding stones and two 

 mullers were found. Specimen 177 is a good example of a smooth 

 shallow matete while 132 is a rough one which, when reversed, 

 served as an anvil. Three cylindrical pestles were discovered in 

 pits. Specimen 22 is a good example of a chipped pestle. Specimen 

 108 is a pestlelike object made from some soft stone. It is so soft 

 that it could hardly have been used for heavy pounding. The stone 

 axes or celts were among the interesting specimens of the polished 

 stone implements. They are interesting because they are dissimilar. 

 That the ancient inhabitants of the site were fishermen seems evi- 

 dent from the number of net-sinkers found. They are of the usual 

 type found on all sites ancient or modern. Specimen 115 is a good 

 illustration of the average form of a net-sinker. 



Flint objects were fairly abundant and include scrapers, a few 

 perforators, knives, spears, triangular arrow points, a few notched 

 points, blank or cache blades, rejects, broken points and chips in 

 fact, a complete collection of flint objects and the waste and acci- 

 dents incident to their manufacture. 



