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men follows the line of contact of two strips or coils of clay used in 

 the construction of the vessel but which had not been closely blended. 



Specimen d is yellowish brown in color, very hard and fine-grained. 

 It does not show evidence of the use of tempering. The impression 

 on the outer surface is the imprint of a rigid, coiled basket. This 

 represents probably the oldest type of pottery found on the site. 



The polished grooved ax, plate 3. is a beautiful example, being 

 very symmetrical and carefully finished. The material is a diabasic 

 rock. 



Two fiakes of chalcedony, plate 4, found on the site, had served as 

 scrapers or cutting instruments. The edges of both are very sharp 

 and in places have been finely serrated through use. 



During a visit to the island in the spring of 1933 several small pieces 

 of pottery, a few broken arrowpoints made of quartz and quartzite. 



Fig. 3. — Projectile point made of brown chert. Natural size. U.S.N.M. no. 373776. 



and a quantity of fiakes of quartz, quartzite, chert, and diabase were 

 found on the surface near the extreme western end of the cultivated 

 fields on the upper part of the island. The area is shown in plate 2. 

 This had probably been the site of a fishing camp, and as parts of 

 the island rise high above the greatest freshets, it would have been 

 a place well suited for a native settlement. 



When Captain Smith wrote regarding the fishing customs of the 

 \ irginia Indians, he said in part : " They use also long arrowes tyed 

 in a line wherewith they shoote at fish in the rivers." Such a method 

 may have been followed by some from the shores of the island, and 

 one projectile point found on the surface may at one time have been 

 attached to an arrow shaft used in shooting fish. The point is sketched 

 in figure 3. It is made of brownish chert, a material seldom encoun- 

 tered in the locality, and is of uniform width and thickness, which 



