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There is a small cave near the top of the bluff facing the Gas- 

 conade, a short distance above the month of Little Piney. Within a 

 few yards of the entrance earth and rock carried in from a sink on 

 top of the hill fill the cavity to the roof. Water runs through after 

 every hard rain. 



Three small cairns, built of small stones, stood on the point of the 

 bluff at the junction of Little Piney and the Gasconade. All 

 destroyed. 



are 



On the edge of a high cliff over the Gasconade, 2 miles north of 

 Arlington, are three cairns, destroyed. 



In Bryanfs Bluff, facing the Gasconade 3 miles below Jerome, are 

 two rock shelters, neither of them more than 20 feet across in any 



direction. In both are shells, bones, and 

 pottery ; a rough stone hammer was found 

 in one. Exposure of bedrock on the out- 

 side shows that the earth deposit in either 

 is not over 2 or 3 feet deep. 



On top of Bryant's Bluff are four cairns, 

 ill of them torn up. The extreme limit of 

 the scattered stone is about 20 feet ; so the 

 3airns were probably 12 to 15 feet in di- 

 imeter. 



At the mouth of Turkey-pen Slough, 4 

 miles north of Arlington, is a terrace with 

 steep banks on two sides, next to the river 

 and to the slough. On this stood a village. 

 Three house sites are plainly marked by 

 the refuse around, and there may be others ; vegetation is very dense. 

 Mussel shells and burned stones are abundant, and manj?^ flint imple- 

 ments have been picked up. 



CAIRNS AT SUGAR TREE CAMP (11) 



Six miles north of Arlington is a clubhouse known as Sugar Tree 

 Camp. A short distance from the building is a high vertical cliff 

 rising almost directly from the Gasconade. The top of this cliff, 

 near the front, is of solid rock, almost bare of timber or brush, and 

 in a row along it close to the edge are seven cairns, all now so de- 

 faced that any attempt at investigation is useless. The smallest, at 

 one end of the row, is of the common circular form, about 12 feet 

 in diameter. Three others seem to be of the same type; but their 

 appearance may be due to their destruction. One is shown in plate 



Fig. 



-Grooved ax from Goat 

 Bluff Cave. 



