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From actual measurements it has been found that the lengths may 

 vary from 33 mm. to 102 mm., but only in a single instance the overall 

 length measured 137 mm. 



Careful records have been kept of all of the fluted points recovered 

 from Virginia and northern North Carolina. When measurements of 

 these points were compared with those from the West it was found 

 that the eastern forms were thicker, shallower based, and resembled 

 in general outline such forms as the Clovis, Folsom, and Eden points. 

 At the present writing 131 fluted points liave been recorded as coming 

 from southern Virginia alone. The majority of these were recovered 

 from Mecklenburg, Dinwiddie, and Bedford Counties. Sixty-five 

 fluted points have been reported from Granville County, N.C. 



The Williamson farm site, a knapping site in Dinwiddie County, 

 Va., has produced artifacts similar to those recovered from the Linden- 

 meier deposits in northern Colorado. Both assemblages appear to 

 belong to the same cotradition in that this site produced not only fluted 

 points but snub-nosed scrapers, side scrapers, fluted basal ends of 

 knives, and several implements which resemble gravers. The points 

 lack the fine flaking so characteristic of the western Folsoms, and the 

 flaking appears to be only fair. The flaking technique is that of per- 

 cussion as indicated on several of the larger blades and broken basal 

 parts of large knives, as well as on several of the smaller implements. 

 Pressure flaking was used on the edges of the finished scrapers, on 

 several of the small blades, and on the fluted points. Large numbers 

 of flakes are faceted as the result of previous flaking and several of 

 them display striking platforms, together with a rather prominent 

 bulb of percussion. Both the Paleo-Indian and the Neo-Indian re- 

 mains occur at this site. The latter is represented by quartz and 

 quartzite artifacts, which are strangely and entirely lacking in the 

 earlier horizon. 



Pickle (1946) reported a Folsom-like arrowpoint and artifacts made 

 of fragmentary mastodon bone in southwest Virginia, an area not too 

 far distant from the one under discussion. Lewis (1947) and Woolsey 

 (1950) later elaborated upon these finds in which mastodon bone frag- 

 ments were utilized as tools. 



Recently, Folsom and Clovis points have been reported from Mar- 

 shall, Jackson, Madison, Lauderdale, and Morgan Counties in northern 

 Alabama, and Franklin County in Tennessee, but not in context. 



Webb (1951) reported an assemblage of artifacts from the Parrish 

 site, II1<:45, in northwestern Kentucky, which has been attributed to 

 the Paleo-Indian. Like all of the other eastern sites there was no 

 definite stratigraphy nor could such a feature be determined even after 

 the site was carefully excavated in 6-incli levels. Separation of cul- 

 tural remains was made solely on the basis of typology. Bone, either 



