AECHEOLOLiY 

 HOLMES 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PITS. 



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A section through a group of excavations is shown in figure 2. The 

 dotted line represents the original surface. The pits are partially filled 

 with refuse from continued excavation and manufacture. The section 

 of a single pit is given in figure 3, which shows the heaping up of shop 

 refuse on the margins. A general view of the half-filled pits and ref- 

 use-covered ridges is presented in figure 4. 



THE WORKSHOPS. 



The story of the working of this quarry and the management and 

 manipulation of the stone is to be read with almost as much ease as if 

 the work had closed but yesterday. The fragments and masses of fresh 

 chert were selected and removed from the pits and the work of reduc 

 tion and manufacture began. Shops were established on the margins 

 of the pits, on the dump heaps, and at convenient points in the vicinity, 





Fig. 4. — Present appearance of some of the smaller ijits. 



the distribution being something like that shown (tii the map, plate i, 

 and in detail in figure 5. 



The circular clusters of white chert refuse, shown in plan in figure 

 6, ai'e clearly defined on the dark ground, and especially so after forest 

 fires have destroj'ed the growth of weeds and small underbrush. In 

 the center is a shallow depression which was tlie fireplace of the lodge; 

 around this the workmen sat, and here are the fragments and flakes, 

 the rejects and hammerstones left by them, covering about the space 

 inclosed bj^ the lodge, and hardly disturbed since the site was deserted. 

 The photograph presented in plate ii is probably the first representa- 

 tion of an aboriginal flaking shop ever brought out. Behind the prin- 

 cipal shop are dimly seen a number of other lodge clusters, and bcA'ond 

 this among the oaks are the pits from which the stone was obtained. 

 Before making the photograph I set up sticks in the fireplace depres- 

 sions of the lodge circles and some of these may be seen in the picture. 



