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JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY 



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 LliTHNOLOGY 



After a freshet some yeurs ago a number of arrowheads, stone hatch- 

 ets, and bullets were found in the lowland, where the Millboro Springs 

 and Warm Springs turnpike crosses the river. No aboriginal remains 

 are now traceable. 



WILLIAMSVILLE. 



There are 2 mound groups near this village, one on either side of the 

 Bullpasture. The first, consisting of 5 small stone mounds, is on the 

 land of Mr Wallace, half a mile from Williamsville, on a plateau rising 

 100 feet above the river. All were made in the same way; the surface 

 soil had been removed and the rocks piled up to a height of 2 feet over 

 a space 15 or 10 feet in diameter. Three of them yielded nothing. In 

 one, lying under the rocks and on the undisturbed earth, were a num- 

 ber of flint Implements, including some broken or unfinished ones and 

 a few cores; 3 fine slate gorgets, each with a single perforation ; a lump 

 of wad; and a fine monitor pipe (figure 5). In the fifth mound were a 



Pipe from Williamsville, Virginia. 



rectangular tablet or gorget, small and not well finisliod; a stone pipe, 

 shai)ed like our common clay pipes; and three columellas, one drilled 

 lengthwise, another through one end. ISTo trace of bone or pottery 

 could be found in any of them. 



The second group is on the farm of Major John T. Byrd. One is of 

 stone, about 10 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, and contained nothing 

 in the way of relics save 2 or 3 small lumps of charcoal. A mound 

 similar in size and barrenness stood near this one. 



The other mounds were of earth, the larger 2 feet high and 25 feet in 

 diameter. Near its center was an irregular hole 4 by 8 feet, extending 

 2^ feet into the subsoil, and filled with earth in which a large quantity 

 of ashes and charcoal were mingled; part of the earth was burned red. 

 All this mixture, which had been carried from some other place and 

 thrown into the hole, was very hard and dry, while the remainder of 

 the mound was soft and even muddy. If an interment had ever taken 

 place here it would seem the skeleton must be perfectly preserved ; but 

 there were no remains of any character in the entire mound except a 



