56  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
the  material  of  which  it  is  made,  it  is  doubtful  if  a  better  piece  could 
have  been  produced.  The  surface  is  altered  to  a  far  greater  degree 
than  are  the  blades  made  of  the  same  stone  from  Pissaseck  illustrated 
in  plate  4.  The  two  specimens  just  mentioned  are  thought  to  have 
belonged  to  the  same  period  of  occupancy  or  to  have  been  lost  by  the 
same  nomadic  bands. 
The  third  field  beyond  the  mouth  of  Millbank  Creek  is  visible  on 
the  extreme  right  in  the  aerial  photograph,  plate  16.  This  is  the  lower 
part  of  Cleve,  the  old  house  having  stood  in  the  midst  of  the  grove, 
near  the  river  bank,  a  short  distance  to  the  left.  Much  broken  pottery 
and  innumerable  objects  of  stone  have  been  found  on  the  surface  of 
this  field,  which  is  just  above  the  white  arrow  in  the  photograph.  The 
two  celts  illustrated  in  plate  17  were  found  here.  Both  are  oval  in 
section,  symmetrical,  and  are  made  of  a  hard,  greenish  diabase.  The 
small  hammerstone  shown  with  the  celts  was  found  in  the  field  nearer 
the  mouth  of  the  creek.  It  is  a  natural  quartzite  pebble  battered  at 
both  ends. 
The  fragments  of  pottery  are  mostly  small,  few  being  more  than 
an  inch  in  length.  One  such  piece  bore  the  impression  of  a  net,  several 
were  smooth,  all  others  were  cord-marked.  The  ware  resembles  in 
all  respects  that  discovered  near  the  mouth  of  Chingoteague  Creek, 
on  the  same  side  of  the  Rappahannock  several  miles  below. 
Checopissowa 
Much  material  has  been  collected  from  the  surface  of  the  fields 
bordering  the  right  bank  of  the  river,  an  area  clearly  shown  in  the 
lower  left  quarter  of  the  aerial  photograph  reproduced  in  plate  16.  It 
is  part  of  Gay  Mont.  This  was  the  locality  of  a  large  native  settle- 
ment, and  although  it  is  not  possible  to  be  positive  in  the  identification 
of  the  ancient  sites,  it  may  have  been  the  village  of  Checopissowa,  as 
indicated  on  the  1624  map. 
The  three  small  grooved  axes  and  the  cylindrical  pestle,  the  latter 
made  of  fine-grain  quartzite,  which  are  illustrated  in  plate  17,  were 
found  on  this  site  near  the  river  bank.  Many  of  the  smaller  objects 
known  to  have  been  collected  here,  and  which  have  been  examined, 
are  exceptionally  well  chipped  and  represent  a  variety  of  forms.  The 
majority  of  the  small  pieces,  including  the  projectile  points,  are  made 
of  white  quartz. 
Fragmentary  pottery  is  plentiful,  and  many  pieces  bearing  the 
impression  of  what  is  thought  to  have  been  rigid  basketry  are  found 
intermingled  with  ware  that  obviously  belonged  to  a  recent  period  of 
