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mullers, used for grinding and cracking corn, are more symmetrical 

 than ordinary pitted hammerstones and the flat faces show evidences 

 of grinding on the mealing stone, despite the shallow pit some- 

 times present in combination hammers and mullers. Many of the 

 mullers are neatly formed and quite symmetrical, while some are 

 exceptionally so and resemble chunkee gaming stones. Some of 

 the hammerstones from this site are made from hard concretions, 

 but most are formed from water-washed pebbles. Some interesting 

 hammers are formed from celts, the cutting edges of which have 

 been broken off. 



The hammers and abrading stones from this site may be classified 

 as follows : ( I ) natural pebbles discoid in shape and showing use 

 by hammering on the edges or circumferences; (2) natural pebbles 

 of discoidal shape showing a battered circumference and having 

 pits worked in on either side of the flattened surfaces, the two pits 

 being opposed to give a thumb and finger hold; (3) natural pebbles 

 reduced to better form by grinding, abrading and polishing, the 

 edges of which show use as hammers and the sides pitted for thumb 

 and finger hold; (4) the same form showing evidences that the 

 stone was used also as a muller; (5) round stone hammers showing 

 battering on two opposed faces, and not pitted; (6) naturally 

 rounded stones showing battering in several faces; (7) stone balls 

 artificially worked to form and showing primary use as hammers 

 with a probable secondard use as club heads of the type enveloped 

 in raw hide; (8) broken celts used as hammers, butt and broken 

 bit being the battering surfaces ; (9) concretions used for batter- 

 ing; (10) flat, thin pebbles showing use as hammers on one end. 



The collection contains more than three hundred selected 

 hammerstones of all these types, while in it also is a box of 3 cubic 

 feet in capacity filled with broken and second-rate specimens. Mor- 

 tars and hammerstones have been found on the surface in the 

 dumps and even in the creek below the site. 



Other stone objects are cylindrical pestles (parts of eight being 

 found), stone beads, stone disks, perforated disks, like Jefferson 

 county specimens, and grooved bolas or club heads. The celts are 

 mostly well formed and thick. Some show most excellent polishing. 

 The thin splinters of sla^e having chisel edges are also interesting, 

 there being about seventy-five in the collection. No grooved axes 

 have been found here. 



The arrow points of chipped chert (commonly called flint) are 

 of the recognized Iroquoian form, that is to say, triangular and 

 without notches, stems or barbs. This is so far true that out of 



