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side only. Flint brazes are exceedingly rare, as the rough surface 

 necessary for corn grinding must have been difficult to produce on 

 so refractory a material, (c) Eight stone ax heads, varying from 3| 

 to 8J inches in length, (d) A dark greenstone ax head, 9^ inches in 

 length, with two shallow notches, one on each side of a shoulder situ- 

 ated 3 inches from the base, probably intended to afford greater 

 facility in hafting the implement, (e) Two well-chipped flint spear- 

 heads, one lOj, the other 7^, inches 

 in length, (f) An oblong block of 

 flint 6^ inches in length and 6^ 

 inches in circumference. This had 

 FIG. 46.-Fimt object from Seven Hills. probably been used as a hammer- 

 stone, since it exhibits well-defined percussion marks' at each extrem- 

 ity, (g) A rather roughly chipped stellate disk of flint, 10 inches in 

 diameter, with 13 sharp-pointed triangular rays or spines, each about 

 2 inches in length, at equal intervals around its periphery. Near the 

 center of this object is a natural hole 3| inches in diameter. 



The upper part of this moimd consisted of earth and blocks of lime- 

 stone; the lower part was not excavated. The implements were 

 found lying close together in a cache, loose in the soil. Numerous 

 rough potsherds were found, but there was no trace of human inter- 

 ment discovered. 



In the southern part of British Honduras, not far from Punta 

 Gorda, is a group of small natural elevations, known as Seven HiUs. 

 Upon the summit of the highest of these, some years ago, the object 

 illustrated in figure 46 was found. This somewhat resembles a horse- 

 shoe with two long bars, each tapermg off to a point, projectuig 

 from either side. It is very neatly chipped 

 from grayish flint. Its extreme length is 16 

 inches. This implement was found just be- 

 neath the surface, covered only by a few 

 inches of soil. At a later date a nimiber of 

 trenches were dug on the summit of this 

 mound, but nothing except potsherds of 

 various kinds with flint and obsidian chips 



came to lio'ht. ^^^- ■^7.— Horseshoe-shaped flint 



TO '^ .„ ■ p .T n ,c object found near San Antonio. 



In figure 47 is seen one oi the finest oi 

 these eccentrically shaped ffints ever found in this part of the 

 Maya area. It is horseshoe-shaped, chipped to a sharp edge all 

 round, and has six sharp spines projecting from the outer periph- 

 ery (one of which has been broken off, as shown in the figure), 

 with shaUow indentations between them. The implement, which 

 is 35 cm. in its greatest diameter, is made of nearly black flint, 

 covered with a beautiful creamy white porcelain-like patina. It 



