Report of a Finding of Pot- 

 tery ON Fox River, near 

 Green Bay, Wis. 



BY REV. GEORGE GIBSON, PRESIDENT OP THE ARCH^OLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OP NORTHERN WISCONSIN. 



About the middle of June, 1877, during a walk along the track of 

 the Wisconsin Central R. E.., and within a mile of the city of Green 

 Bay, I was accosted by the section boss having charge of that portion 

 of the line, who informed me that he had just struck some curious 

 pieces of pottery. Having often ridden with him in my expeditions 

 and shown him fragments of diiferent kinds, he was, in a measure, 

 prepared to recognize anything of the kind when it came under his 

 notice. He was engaged at the time with a gang of men ballasting 

 up the track, and only a few moments before had rescued the remains 

 I found there, which he had deposited on the bank above the pit in 

 which the men were digging; and although pretty well broken up I 

 saw that he had rescued portions of what had belonged to two well 

 preserved vases. The workmen from whose shovels these pieces had 

 been saved, had evidently struck the vessels about midships, and cart- 

 ed away the lower half, which they had rammed into smaller frag- 

 ments under the ties before my coadjuter himself came up to the spot. 

 Had either of us been there half an hour sooner we might have se- 

 cured two fine specimens of burial urns. I secured about three- 

 quarters of the rim of one of the vases, averaging four inches in width, 

 together with fragments of the body enough to compose J to ^ of 

 the jar. One-half the rim of the second was found with an average 

 depth of two inches. Few or no fragments could be discovered beside 

 the above. These portions of rim I have restored. (See Plate 10). 



There were two graves to which the vases belonged, lying east and 

 west. A number of human bones, together with a quantity of fish 

 and bird bones, were found. The human remains were portions of 

 the shoulder, arm, and leg bones. These have been submitted to Dr. 



