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Another structure that might almost be called a pit was found 

 beneath refuse heap A about 6 feet above the bottom of the slope. 

 It was a saucer-shaped layer of calcined material, 14 inches from 

 the surface, underlaid by charcoal and some 2 feet in diameter. In 

 its hollow were found some fragments of human skull, some broken 

 stones and a few potsherds. 



Specimens. The description of the work ended, we will now take 

 up the specimens found at both the Heath and Durfee Farm sites. 

 There was no difference perceptible in the patterns and forms of the 

 pottery, bone implements, etc., so that it was clear to me that the 

 specimens from both places should be considered as representing the 

 arts and life of one and the same people. Of course, some things 

 were found at Durfee farm and not at Heath's, and vice versa ; but 

 these articles were of the rare varieties, of which one could not 

 expect to find a full set in either site. The specimens will be classi- 

 fied according to use, under the heads of w r eapons, implements, 

 domestic vessels, pipes, ornaments, games, foods and specimens show- 

 ing the methods of manufacture. 



The most common objects which can be classed as weapons were 

 the arrowheads of bone and deer antler. The antler point was 

 merely, as a rule, an antler prong drilled out at the base to receive the 

 shaft and whittled or rubbed down to a fine point at the tip. When 

 well made a cross section of this type would be lenticular. The 

 commonest bone arrowhead is a small hollow bone, such as the 

 femur of some small animal, cut off square at one end so that the 

 marrow cavity would serve as a socket for the arrow shaft, and 

 sharpened at the other end. Arrowheads of solid bone are also 

 found, made like the stone arrowheads in triangular and sometimes 

 slightly stemmed forms. 



Objects of chipped stone were rare, but a few triangular arrow- 

 heads, in the main nicely chipped after the old Iroquois pattern, were 

 secured. 



One specimen only of the barbed harpoon of bone, which is usu- 

 ally fairly common in this region, was found ; but this was struck in 

 digging by one of the assistants and so badly broken that it w r as 

 almost unrecognizable. Another somewhat similar but smaller 

 barbed object was exhumed, perhaps an arrowhead for fish, or one 

 of the prongs of a fish spear. There was also a small, slightly curved 

 bone barb sharpened at one end but with the other roughened for 

 attachment to one of the jaws of a fish spear, or to a wooden fish 

 hook. 



