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west. At the eastern eud against the sl()i)c were a large imperforated 

 gorget, vsome flint and qnartz chips, and a long, slender flint flake. A 

 foot from these 5 small plates of mica, a quartz blade, 5 roughly fin- 

 ished flint knives, and a shale gorget in fragments from weathering 

 were found. 



On the point between the llawksbill and the Shenandoah there 

 was formerly a small stone mound, but it is now entirely destroyed. 

 Many relics have been found in the field in which it stood. 



J. A. BRUM15ACK FARM. 



On the farm of J. A Brumback, at Beyler ferry, is a small cairn 

 almost effaced by cultivation. 



ALGEK FARM. 



On the farm of A. J. Alger, 8 miles northwest of Luray, on a spur 

 which extends from Massanuttcn mountain to the Shenandoah, is a 

 mound 50 feet long and from 22 to 28 feet in breadth, the longer axis 

 nearly northwest and southeast, or about parallel with the spur. The 

 height varies from 4 to 5 feet. A broad shallow ditch extends nearly 

 around it, the inner edge being .'3 to 4 feet from the base of the mound. 

 Excavation proved it to consist of two nearly circular earth mounds 

 whose bases overlapped on the adjacent sides, the whole being covered 

 with bowlders to a depth of 1 to 2 feet. Thirteen feet inward from the 

 southeastern end and 8 feet from the northern side was a grave large 

 enough to contain an extended body. Two feet southwest of this was a 

 pit 3 feet in diameter. From these to the southern edge of the mound 

 extended a streak of burned earth and charcoal GtolO feet in breadth, 

 apparently the remains of a fire on the surface. Eighteen feet inward, 

 10 feet from the northern side, was a pit 5 feet in diameter containing a 

 fewfragments of soft bones, among which were the teeth of a child and an 

 adult ; also a broken flint spearhead. Twenty feet inward^ 8 feet from the 

 northern side, Avas a grave 5 feet long. Twenty-eight feet inward on the 

 center line was a grave 4 by 1 i feet. All of these reached only to the hard 

 subsoil, and in none of them, except as mentioned above, were found 

 any relics or traces of bone. Forty feet inward, or 10 feet from the north- 

 western end, equidistant from the sides of the mound, was a grave nearly 

 7 feet long extending a, foot nito the hard gravelly clay, which is diffi- 

 cult to penetrate even with a pick. Much of the earth removed had been 

 thrown back and mingled with cobblestones or bowlders. Near the 

 center were 2 small copper beads and a scrap of mica. At the north- 

 western end were an gorget-form piece of slate (not perforated), a gorget 

 ot green slate broken and redrilled, a piece of mica, a flint arrowhead, a 

 <iuartzite knife, a piece of white quartz, and apiece of quartz crystal. 

 Stones filled all the graves and were piled above them to the top of the 

 mound. In several of the graves flat stones were inclined against the 

 sides Avith one end in the bottom, as if poles or other snp])orts had been 



