FOWKE] ABORIGINAL FLINT QUARRIES 527 
blocking-out shops where the ground is covered with spalls; there 
are no evidences of quarrying near at hand, but in all the ravines 
nodules of various sizes are abundant. They may have been gathered 
from such places, or from small pits along the outcrop, which have 
now filled to the general level. 
All these are in R. 3, T. 5. 
A fourth of a mile east of the Hardshaw shop site was a trench 
4 or 5 feet deep when first observed, and probably 100 feet long, 
where nodules were procured. The surface was strewn with spalls 
and broken concretions, but these have been removed or buried and 
the trench filled by farming operations. 
In sec. 26, T. 3 S., R. 2 E., on the Sibert farm, Blue River makes 
a long, tortuous loop. The surface of the knoll within the bend is 
worn down nearly to the level of the flint-bearing stratum. On all 
sides the hill is strewn for some distance below the top with nodules 
and fragments, many of them showing artificial cleavage or cracking. 
Among them are a few small bowlders of glacial origin, bearing 
marks of much use as hammers. On top of the knoll a space of an 
acre or more is covered with the refuse of implement making. At 
every wash, cow path, or other broken place in the sod, chips, flakes, 
and spalls are abundant. 
Half a mile east of this knoll is an outcrop of the flint in a ravine. 
Some chipping has been done on a gentle slope on one of the hills. 
There is no evidence that any quarrying was done; the artisans seem 
to have found all the raw material they needed in the freshly exposed 
portions of the outcrop. 
Another outcrop is reported to the south or southeast of these 
two, and on the opposite side of Blue River. This site was not 
visited. 
On the Geological Survey map, the word “ flints” is printed along 
the line between secs. 29 and 32. There is an abundance of chert, 
but none of it fit for use and no aboriginal work was ever done 
there. The same is true of “ Huffman’s Hill” in sec. 23. 
Many finishing shops are reported, almost invariably on village 
sites. Only a few were visited. Flakes and chips were found in pro- 
fusion over at least an acre in each of the following places: 
On the hill just back of Kendall’s Landing; on a high hill on 
J.C. Lopp’s farm, NW. 14 sec. 8, R. 3, T. 5; immediately below the 
mouth of Indian Creek; at Morvin’s Landing, opposite Branden- 
burg, Ky.; at Lopp’s Landing, sec. 25: the old village site near the 
large quarry above described. 
On S. P. Cunningham’s farm, NW. 1 sec. 6, R. 3, T. 5, were two 
mounds, now destroyed. The field around them is reported to be 
“full of flint chips” when the ground is freshly plowed. Near this 
