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burials were found along the western edge of the hill a little dis- 

 tance from the main village site. Here more than one hundred 

 graves have been opened but very few objects of European occupa- 

 tion have been found except brass kettles. The village site proper 

 occupied the wider portion of the hill at the southern end and all 

 along the edge of the numerous refuse deposits that contained many 

 bone implements, notched and serrated potsherds, and other dis- 

 carded and broken material. Locally the place is known as the 

 " Shattock site " and the hill as " Fort hill." The period is the 

 beginning of European contact. 



12 On his map of the Seneca country, Gen. J. S. Clark placed an 

 Indian village almost in the center of the town of East Bloomfield. 

 Mr Hildburgh reported a cemetery there. 



13 Village site reported by Fred H. Hamlin on lot 16, East Bloom- 

 field, on the Nead farm. 



14 Village site on the Andrews farm at the north angle of the 

 road northwest of Bristol. 



15 Just southeast of this in the upper portion of the valley of 

 Mud creek is a river site on the Sears farm. 



1 6 Site on the Jackson farm in the northeast corner of Bristol 

 township, just south of the Richmond Mills road and southwest of 

 Bristol hill. 



17 Village and hilltop stronghold on the George Reed farm near 

 the western boundary of Richmond township and on the southeas 

 side of the Hemlock lake outlet. This site is on a sand hill that lies 

 between two small streams running into the outlet ; on the north 

 side is a high slate bank running down into the brook. A pathwa\ 

 down the upper slope of this bank leads to a fine spring which 

 probably supplied water for the village. The opposite ravine is less 

 deep but separates fcke tract of land from the gradual sloping hillside 

 beyond. Throughout the site, especially the lower portion facing 

 the valley, many pits have been found from which excavators hav( 

 taken numerous objects of flint and bone. The hillside refuse deposit? 

 are especially rich, but no object of European origin has yet beer 

 discovered. The site seems in every way a precolonial Seneca 

 village; the type of the potsherds discovered are similar to those 

 found on the sites of the colonial period throughout the region. The 

 State Museum has a collection of some one thousand specimens 

 taken from the site by Alva H. Reed. For detailed description 

 see page 182. 



