58 JAMKS AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY [^ 



BUREAU OF 

 HNOLOGY 



the slope of the bill instead ofou the top, and may have been heaped 

 up when the bind was cleared. 



PRINTZ PLACK. 



On John S. Printz's land, on Dry run, is a small stone beap from 

 which, it is claimed, human bones and fragments of pottery have been 

 taken ; but it lies on the slope of the Blue ridge, fully 1,000 feet above 

 the base, and a stream of water flows from beneath it. 



KOONTZ PLACE. 



Near the Gordonsville turnpike, a mile above Kite mills, at tlie foot 

 of the Blue ridge, oii the land of David Koontz, is a field where hun- 

 dreds of arrowpoints and spearheads and many hoes and celts have been 

 found. The ground is covered with chips and spalls, and it seems to 

 be the site of an extensive factory. Quartz and quartzite bowlders, 

 and argillite in pieces that may be wrought into implements with but 

 little labor, are abundant. The ground is too sterile for cultivation, 

 and the nearest level land is fully a mile away. 



A very small earth mound in which some fragments of mica were 

 found, stood on a terrace between the two Hawksbill creeks, a mile 

 and a half south of Lurny. 



SHENANDOAH COUNTY. 

 STRASBURG. 



A little more than a mile south of "Strasburg, on the land of O. S. 

 Funk, is a mound 3 feet high and 30 feet in diameter. It stands near 

 a bluff overlooking North fork of the Shenandoah, and is composed 

 of earth and stone in about equal (piantities, the latter, some of 

 them weighing 1200 jxmnds, being sandstone bowlders from the surface 

 and shale or limestone slabs from the bhifif. 



Three graves were found extending a little less than a foot into the 

 compact clay soil, each about 6 feet long and 10 or 18 inches wide, lying 

 northwest and southeast, and nearly ecpiidistant from the center and 

 from each other. In one, nothing was found; in another, decayed bone; 

 in the third, traces of bone, a rude quartz knife, and a sheet of mica. 

 The rocks jnled over them had settled to the bottom of each. 



On the opposite side of the river, south of this mound, is another 

 18 inches high and 20 feet in diameter, similar in construction except 

 that it was built of shale slabs, there being no sandstone bowlders 

 near. It is on the northern end of a ridge in a sharp curve of the river, 

 and covered two graves, the longer axis northwest and southeast as in 

 the first. They were about 5 feet apart, tl)e eastern end of the southern 

 one opposite the middle of the northern one. No trace of bones was 

 found. 



