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fragment is of a hard sedimentary rock. Miscellaneous round stones, 

 of indeterminate functions, appear to be river pebbles. 



Metates. — One fragment of what appears to be a table type metate 

 was recovered in Trench 11, Level A-2. One surface is flattened, 

 the other slightly convex. 



Manos. — Two granite fragments of probable manos with oval cross 

 section and well-polished surfaces were recovered , one from the fourth 

 level of Trench 1, and one from a mixed lot from Trench 8 and Trench 

 7. An oval and flattened stone of sedimentary rock 10X8X4.5 

 cms. with well-smoothed surfaces is included here as a possible mano. 



Celts. — A number of celts were recovered at the site, most of them 

 in the refuse of various trenches, but a few in association with definite 

 ceramic types. The celts may be divided into three categories: a 

 beveled edge group; a chipped poll group with broad blade and 

 narrowing poll; and an ovoid group with a tendency toward overall 

 polishing. 



The first group <'pl. 18, a, h) is represented by the following: a few 

 examples (fragments only) in Mound III; one large fragment from 

 Trench 10, Level 5; a complete example. Find 219, from a 20-cm. 

 depth in Trench 6; and a miniature celt with Find 368. All are made 

 of basalt largely altered to serpentine and all are finely polished with 

 the exception of a chipped poll from Find 219. They tend to be long 

 and narrow with sides which extend straight back from the cutting 

 edge and maintain a consistent width until they narrow fairly abruptly 

 at the poll. The cutting edge is slightly curved. Each lateral edge is 

 flattened on three planes for the length of the celt; one plane is perpen- 

 dicular to the cutting edge of the celt with one oblique plajie on either 

 side. Most of the examples suggest a relatively large tool ranging from 

 5-6 cms. wide, 3-4 cms. thick, and, in the case of the one complete 

 example, 25.5 cms. long. Pottery associations with the single minia- 

 ture example (2.6 cms. long) in Find 368 are with the Macaracas type. 



Most of the celts or celt fragments recovered at He-4 belong in the 

 second group or chipped poll category, an apparently ubiquitous one 

 in Panama, well represented both in Veraguas and at Sitio Conte 

 (Lothrop, 1937; 1950). These have a relatively broad blade, generally 

 slightly curved, and a body which narrows down to the chipped poll 

 (pi. 18, c, d). Polishing occurs at the blade end and continues, to 

 some extent, along the body of the tool, except for depressions in the 

 stone. Measurements for the larger examples approximate 9X5X2 

 cms. Unlike those recovered at the Gir6n site, these have an oval 

 rather than a thickened cross section. Two miniature examples 

 (length about 3 cms.) and one small specimen (length 6 cms.) were 

 associated with Macaracas pottery in Find 372, one full size example 

 was recovered from the third level of Trench 1, and a small one of 



