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were doubtless selected and carried away for use in making the dif- 

 ferent smaller implements and also as implements without further 

 shaping. As in other cases where dwelling was not associated with 

 the factory site, no specialized implements were found. The nearest 

 approach to the typical completed blade is illustrated by the frag- 

 ment shown in figure 85. Among the debris a few large thick blades 

 occur, notched in opposite margins as if to be hafted as picks (fig. 

 8G), and several fluted cores or nuclei from which thin flakes had 



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Fig. 85. Blade broken near point of completion. (One-half actual size.) 



been detached were found (fig. 8T). Typical hammerstones made of 

 gnarled chert occur in numbers. 



The stone is a white and yellowish gray chert of exceptional mas- 

 siveness and homogeneity but of ojily moderate fracturing qualities. 

 It is not so well suited for making the smaller implements as is the 

 Flint Ridge material and not so well adapted to the manufacture of 

 very large blades as the Mill Creek chert. However, among the re- 

 jectage of the site are many partially worked and abandoned speci- 

 mens, measuring a foot or more in length, indicating attempts to 

 secure blades of large size. Implements of this material are found 

 scattered over a wide area, l)ut may not be safely traced to this par- 

 ticular locality since there are, doubtless, in the general region, many 

 other quarries and shops where kindred material was worked. 

 Subse(}uent to the writer's two visits Dr. W. C. Barnard, of Seneca, 

 Mo., had examined this and numerous sites of minor importance in 

 the region and had made valuable collections. 

 38657°— 19— Bull. GO, pt i 15 



