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Specimen  e.  Hammerstone ;  a  quartzite  pebble,  about  2  inches 
thick.    Deeply  pitted  on  the  two  opposite  surfaces. 
Specimen  /.  Hammerstone  formed  of  a  piece  of  coarse  sandstone. 
Both  surfaces  deeply  pitted. 
Specimen  g.  Mortar  made  of  an  irregular  block  of  coarse,  dark 
brown  sandstone. 
Plate  p  (upper  part). — Specimen  a.  Massive  implement  formed  of 
a  piece  of  coarse  quartzite  which  had  been  struck  from  a  boulder.  It 
appears  to  have  been  attached  to  a  handle  and  used  as  a  hoe. 
Specimens  h,  c,  and  d.  Three  hammerstones  made  of  diabasic 
rocks,  with  surfaces  sliowing  different  degrees  of  weathering. 
Specimen  e.  Small  quartzite  pebble  which  had  been  used  as  a 
hammerstone. 
Specimen  /.  A  very  roughly  chipped  implement  made  of  diabase, 
with  surface  deeply  weathered. 
CACHE  OF  TRADE  BEADS 
A  cache  of  trade  beads  found  at  Leedstown  a  few  years  ago  proved 
to  be  of  great  interest.  Examples  of  the  beads  are  shown  in  plate  i, 
but  before  describing  them  in  detail  and  telling  of  the  locality  and 
manner  in  which  they  were  encountered,  it  will  be  well  to  refer  briefly 
to  the  manufacture  and  use  of  glass  beads  by  the  early  colonists  at 
Jamestown. 
Beads  of  many  sorts  were  known  to  the  Virginia  Indians  in  pre- 
historic times ;  consequently,  those  brought  by  the  first  settlers — ^being 
of  a  new  and  unknown  material  and  often  of  a  brilliant  color — became 
of  the  utmost  importance  when  trading  with  the  natives.  So  important 
were  they  that  it  was  soon  decided  to  manufacture  some  in  the  colony, 
rather  than  to  import  all  from  Europe,  and  it  is  evident  that  quantities 
were  thus  produced  at  a  house  erected  for  that  purpose  not  far  from 
Jamestown. 
On  April  30,  1607,  before  arriving  at  the  site  of  future  Jamestown, 
some  of  the  English  landed  and  visited  the  Indian  village  of  Kecough- 
tan,  about  the  position  of  the  present  Hampton,  where  they  were 
treated  kindly  by  the  natives.  The  English  were  ofifered  food  and, 
so  the  narrative  continues  (p.  Ixiv)  :  ^'  "After  we  were  well  satisfied, 
they  gave  us  of  their  Tobacco,  which  they  tooke  in  a  pipe  made 
artificially  of  earth  as  ours  are,  but  far  bigger."  A  dance  followed  and 
when  it  had  ended  "  the  Captaine  gave  them  Beades  and  other  trifling 
Jewells." 
Percy  narrative  in  Smith,  op.  cit. 
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