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definitely for what purpose these miniature celts were used. Cer- 

 tainly they could not have sustained rough usage [see fig. 9, ii', 

 pi. 20]. 



A grooved stone sometimes called an arrow shaft smoother is 

 figured in text figure 20. 



Fig. 20 Arrow shaft rubber and polisher 



Polished stone objects 



No polished stone articles of the type usually termed ceremonial 

 were found in the course of the excavations although a gorget was 

 found on the hill to the east of the site, unless the very interesting 

 polished bar of Portage shale found in grave 96 is to be called a 

 ceremonial [see pi. 20, fig. 4]. There is a bar of this description 

 in the museum collection which came from Jefferson county and the 

 writer secured another 15 inches long from Mayville, Chautauqua 

 CO. All of these specimens have sharpened ends like celts and for 

 the want of a definite name the writer proposes the term " bar 

 celt."^ Thruston in his Antiquities of Tennessee in plate 16 figures 

 an implement resembling a bar celt. He describes it as the " . . . . 

 long delicate crescent-shaped ' implement ' of highly polished syen- 

 ite, represented in plate XV (author's collection), also probably 

 belongs to the ceremonial class. It is 11^ inches long. Originally 

 it was probably 12 inches as the point has been broken. It was 

 found by Theodore Haslem in North Nashville (Tenn.)." Objects 

 of this kind are probably rare and but few have been described. 

 All three specimens in the State collection are flattened on the bot- 

 toms and rounded over the back with gradually tapering ends. 



I The wfiter has since examined another bar eelt found by Mr -William T. 

 Fetiton of Conewango Valley. 



