122 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 76 



LOGAN COUNTY 



Very little limestone appears in Logan County, the surface roclc 

 being mostly conglomerate. A reconnoissance was made here, how- 

 ever, from Russellville to Diamond Springs, to iuA'estigate " a broad 

 valley " which was reported to extend in a general north and south 

 direction from the Ohio, near Brandenburg, toward the Cumberland. 

 It was also claimed that beds of drift gravel exist at a considerable 

 elevation above the little creek now flowing through the valley and 

 that rock shelters are numerous at A^arious levels. 



As there is an abandoned drainage system, different from the pres- 

 ent, somewhere in this part of Kentuck}^ which has never been 

 traced, the place seemed worth a visit. The result was disappointing. 



The valley is due entirely to causes now at work. The gravel beds 

 result from weathering of lower Coal Measure conglomerates. The 

 rock shelters are shallow, or with a thin covering of earth on the 

 floor, or subject to overflow. None was found that offered any 

 incentive for examination. 



TODD COUNTY 



On the farm of Mr. Robert Glover, 3^ miles southwest of Trenton. 

 is a cave known generally as " Bell's Cave," from a former owner. 

 This forms the outlet of a large sink hole, all the rainfall of 6 or 8 

 acres draining out through it. The entrance is wide and deep, with 

 an easy descent to the level floor. It was for a long time a shelter 

 for Indians, for there is a layer of ashes more than 6 feet in depth, 

 50 or 60 feet long, and about 15 or 20 feet wide. These represent the 

 probable original dimensions, but the top has been leveled for a 

 dancing floor, and the drainage water has cut away a large part of it. 

 depositing the material farther back in the cave. Six feet of vertical 

 face is exposed at one place by the water, but the ashes extend still 

 deeper. It is said that bone needles, animal bones, antlers, mussel 

 shells ("different from any in the creek now"), burnt rock, and 

 much broken pottery were found in leveling the top. A very fine 

 polished flint celt 12 inches or more in length is also reported. One 

 liuman skeleton has been found, either at the edge of the ash bed or a 

 few feet away from the edge. The floor is covered, where the earth 

 is washed off, with flint nodules and fragments, and the slopes out- 

 side have considerable on the surface. The gullies washed along the 

 slope are paved with nodules like a macadamized road, and in a 

 few places the streams have cut into them so as to show a foot or 

 more at the lower part of the bank so filled and packed with nodules 

 that a knife blade could not be thrust in more than 2 or 3 inches. 

 But there is no evidence of aboriginal quarrying. Probably the 



