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arrowheads, a drilled stoue ornament painted red, and a celt were 

 obtained. 



A circular embankment exists on Ehn creek on tlie farm of J. N. 

 Metcalf. It is in the forest and comprises about 1 acre. This may be 

 the one referred to by Larkiu in "Ancient Man in America."' 



Mr. Thatcher, of Rutledge, an old man who lived on Clear creek when 

 a boy, says there formerly existed two semicircular embankments 3 

 miles west of the village of Ellington and a mile above the two pre- 

 viously described. Both were situated on bluffs, and. each embraced 

 about an acre and a half. One was double-walled, with a gateway at 

 which the walls turned outward several feet, and in front of which was 

 a small mound. 



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Fig. 334. — lucloeure near EUingtou. Cbautmnnia t<muty, New York. 



INCLOSURE NEAR .SINCLAIRVILLE. 



This work, situated on the farm of Mr. William Scott, about a mile 

 and a half south of Sinclairville, is oval, or, in fact, almost truly ovate 

 in form. It stands partly ou lot 30 and partly on lot 38. As the work 

 stands mostly in the forest and has suffered but little from the plow, 

 the wall is quite distinct throughout; but the ditch, which is outside, 

 though traceable entirely around and mostly quite distinct, is at some 

 points almost effaced. A large white pine stump -t feet in diameter 

 stands directly in the ditch on the northwest. About 400 rings o^ 

 growth were counted in it. From the point where the stump stands to 

 where the wall crosses the line between the lots, it runs along the mar- 

 gin of the slope to the brook ou the north. At the northern extremity 

 thei'e is a gap which was probably a gateway leading down to the creek; 



