520 ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS—II [BLH. ANN. 44 
Furnr ry Topp Counry, Ky. 
In the southwest corner of Todd County, Ky., 2 or 3 miles from 
Trenton, is a field in which the ground is covered with shop refuse 
derived from hornstone nodules. It is of the same character, in 
color, texture, and chipping qualities, as the hornstone around Wyan- 
dotte Cave in Indiana. It was observed in passing by, and there 
was no opportunity to make an examination of the site; but there 
must be quarries, as well as other workshops, in the neighborhood. 
Furxt ry Harprin anp Wayne Counties, TENN. 
From stone graves along the lower Tennessee and Cumberland 
Rivers have been taken a number of remarkable chipped objects. 
None, or at least very few, like them occur elsewhere, and the chert 
of which they are made differs from that in any quarry so far 
discovered. The scarcity of the material, as denoted by the rela- 
tively few specimens and the limited area in which they are found, 
indicates a local deposit which has thus far, by its small extent, 
escaped the notice of prospectors and collectors. Many persons have 
sought to find it, but as yet unsuccessfully. 
A workshop was reported in Hardin County, Tenn., on which. 
so it was stated, may be found many large broken or unfinished 
specimens, some of the fragments being thin, slender, and “as long 
as the blade of a table knife.” The place was visited in the hope 
that a clue might be found which would eventually lead to the 
wished-for quarry. It is a little more than a mile northwest of 
Olive Hill, a village 12 miles south of Clifton on the Tennessee 
River. 
In a level creek bottom is the site of an Indian village, marked by 
dark earth over an area of about 1 acre; a smal! mound; and a number 
of stone graves. The ground is strewn with the usual remains found 
in such places, flint chips being especially noticeable. Among the 
latter, however, none could be found resembling the material sought ; 
nor has any such come to the notice of those living on the farm, 
although they have gathered many specimens from the fields and 
cleaned out several of the stone graves. 
A large part of Hardin and Wayne Counties is covered with 
chert, dingy white, grayish, or yellowish in color, rather close but 
not uniform in texture, weathering superficially into various shades 
1 After this report was made, and it was too late to visit the place he mentions, Mr. 
S. W. Denny, of Ashland, Tenn., stated that he had found the site “where the ‘Stone 
Grave’ Indian obtained his flint, or in other words the dark-colored stone or chert from 
which he made his large chisels and arrow points. The quarry is in Stewart County, 
Tenn. I recently found 10 of those large chisels or axes in one place—evidently buried 
there to hide them, as there was no quarry. Six vessels were also in the same place.” 
