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ARTICLES MADE OF CHERT. 



Chips and implements of flint are found all through 

 the material in the mounds and are scattered on the 

 surface on the ground between them. Some of the chert 

 contains silicified fusulinas. This was perhajis brought 

 from the region of the cherty limestone farther east in 

 the state. Other material resembles that found in the 

 Equus gravel and may well have been taken in the 

 surrounding country. It was manufactured into a va- 

 riety of objects such as scrapers, knives, arrowpoints, 

 spearpoints, awls, drills, hoes, spades, tomahawks, and 

 ha,ud-haramers. 



SCRAPERS. 



The scraper was the most common tool made from 

 chert. They are found everywhere. The author col- 

 lected some two hundred specimens and many have been 

 carried away by others. These implements average one 

 and three-fourths of an inch in length and one inch in 

 width. It is triangular, with a rounded point at one 

 end and a convex wider base at the other (Figs. 11, 12 

 and 13.) The scrapers occur in all conditions of per- 

 fection of workmanship and in all stages of wear and 

 hard usage. There are great variations in size. The 

 length runs from seven-eighths of an inch to nearly four 

 inches; the width, from one to two inches; and the 

 thickness, from one eighth of an inch to two thirds. 



