48 JAMES AND POTOMAC AKCHEOLOGY [ethnology 



Little inforiuatioii couceruiug these remains or tlie character of the 

 art products uncovered by the freshet was obtainable. 



VEENV KAUM. 



On a hill on the farm of Lee Yeeny, half a mile above the Burner 

 place, are 2 small mounds, both of which have been opened. It is 

 reported that i)ottery was fouiul in one. 



RUiafNEK PLACE. 



For nearly a mile alon.n' the bottom lands of Reuben and Ben Kuffner, 

 below Euttner ford, a mile north of Haml)uri;, the Hood of 1870 disclosed 

 at intervals hearths and lirei)laces, probably over L'OO in all. They 

 were close to the river bank and from 2 to feet in diameter. Quan- 

 tities of Hint and (piartzite chips, burned stones, fragments of pottery, 

 many tine arrowpoints and spearheads (one of Flint ridge stone), and 

 a very large black steatite platfoiin pipe have been found. 



15AISERMAN FARM. 



On the farm of (leorge Bauserman, a mile and a half above Bixler 

 ferry and 3 miles northwest of Luray, is a village site on a low bluli 

 overlooking the bottom. Chippings are abundant, and many relics 

 have been found here and in the adjacent bottom lands. The last 

 Indian massacre in the valley occurred at this point in 1766. 



DEAL FARINI. 



Three miles northwest of Luray, opposite Shuler, at Bixler ferry, on 

 the farm of Mrs Deal, are 2 mounds on a i)lateau that rises about 200 

 feet above the river bottom. They are a hundred yards apart on a line 

 nearly northwest and southeast. The one nearer the bluff is 21 feet 

 in diameter and 18 inches above the snirounding level. On the northern 

 side the slope continues unbroken to the bottom of a ditch a foot deep 

 and 1 feet wide which embraces a third of the circumference. The sui'- 

 tace of the mound was covered with a single stratum of bowlders, none 

 appearing below these until within 4 or 5 feet of the center on every 

 side. Here they began to increase in numbers and finally extended to 

 the bottom of a pit 4 feet in diameter which reached to the gravelly 

 subsoil at a depth of 18 inches. Across the bottom of the pit, in 

 irregular spots and i)atches not wider at any point than 18 inches, was 

 a .streak of powdered sjiecular iron ore. On this, close to one edge of 

 the pit, were some scraps of mica, a few flint fragments, pieces of 

 quartz crystal, a lump of red ocher, a slate gorget with two perforations 

 and curving sides, a rectangular gorget with two perforations and 

 another of similar shape but with one perforation, and a chalcedony 

 spearhead nearly <> inches long (figure 13). There was no trace of bone. 

 Evidently a body had been deposited at the bottom of the grave with 

 the accompanying articles, stones placed over it until they reached up 



