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covered parts of the site, it is all the more interesting to find some 

 traces of what may have been an extensive native village, possibly one 

 of the Manahoac settlements mentioned in 1608. 



Many arrowpoints have been found on the site and on the adjacent 

 lands. The great majority are made of white quartz and are of the 

 forms so plentiful throughout piedmont Virginia, similar to those 



Plan of the lower fish trap at Skinkers Ford. 



figured from the Forest Hall site and from the vicinity of Potato 

 Run. Axes of the early form, roughly chipped and weathered, like- 

 wise occur on the site, and a few fragments of cord-marked pottery 

 have been found on both sides of the Rapidan, but other material 

 has been recovered that is rather unusual. 



Small jasper scrapers and blades were found on the surface, within 

 a very limited area, not far from the normal bank of the river, and 



