pip. N^o^' 2^5"/' J0^3^ H- KERR RESERVOIR BASIN — MILLER 123 



Fragments of fine-grained sandstone hones were found mostly at 

 site 44Mc72, They were carefully shaped with sides precisely 

 smoothed leaving the honing surface perfectly flat or even. Usually 

 they are tapering in general outline tenninating in rounded points. 

 The one exception is oval in cross section with one of the ends battered 

 into a crude sort of hammer. 



One hone has three narrow, parallel grooves existing 20 mm. down 

 the long axis of the stone. Crossing these grooves at a diagnonal are 

 two other parallel grooves, neither of which is over 1 millimeter 

 in width nor over that in depth. These grooves were formed by ap- 

 plying some sort of sharply pointed object or objects to the stone, since 

 the bases are narrower at the bottom than they are at the top and 

 formed a rough V-shaped trough. 



As far as our activities in the Reservoir area are concerned, stone 

 'pichs were to be found only at the sites on the uppermost terraces 

 alongside Bluestone Creek. These were manufactured by percussion 

 flaking from cores and large flakes of chert and rhyolite, all of which 

 display fairly sizable chipping scars. Usually they are characterized 

 by being somewhat compressed almond-shaped, rouglily round to oval 

 in cross section, and ungrooved, with no evidence of ever having been 

 liafted. 



Celts are roughly of this same general shape and are characterized 

 by being much flatter in cross section. Only the blade section has 

 been smoothed. Polishing has been acquired through usage. The 

 cutting edge is convex in outlme, sharp, f oraied by the beveling of the 

 bilateral surfaces and never extending any great distance up the sides 

 of the tool. Celts of this period usually measure about 95 mm. in 

 length. A smaller one of rhyolite measures 77 mm. long and displays 

 no smoothing or abraiding along the crescentic flat blade section. 

 Whether this object can truthfully be termed a celt is questionable, for 

 it could have served equally well as a small chopper or as a chisel. 



The Bluestone Creek sites have given us a number of two side- 

 notched stone tools which are roughly sagittal in outline but are much 

 too large and heavy to serve as axes. The larger was fashioned from 

 a chert core by means of percussion chipping, and measured 84 mm. in 

 length, 45 mm. in width across the basal section, 49 mm. in width across 

 the shoulders, and 25 mm. in maximum thickness. It is lenticulate in 

 cross section both crosswise and lengthwise. In general outline the 

 base is square, joining the sides at rounded corners, which immediately 

 proceed downward into long, shallow notches that terminate at the 

 top of the shoulders, which in turn, extend downward along convex 

 sides to a blunt tip. There has been a certain amount of basal thin- 

 ning, bringing the base to a fine edge similar to those surroundmg 

 the tool which, in turn, reflect a number of small, but by no means fine. 



