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some were almost void of any kind of implements. They produced 

 specimens of elk teeth, elk and deer horns, bone awls, perforated 

 bears and racoon teeth, also many racoon penis bones, a few perfo- 

 rated potsherds, worked bone of all descriptions and manner, bear 

 molars polished and perforated representing the human foot, pohshed 

 celts of the regular type, a few shale implements, together with 

 various types of fiakers, a few net and line sinkers and bone fish 

 hooks. 



" While here we viewed a collection made from this site by P. P. 

 Barnard, of the town of Richmond, and which contains some of 

 the finest types of bone implements and ornaments I have had the 

 opportunity to inspect. There are approximately 300 triangular 

 points (which is the predominating type), 8 or 10 celts of fine 

 workmanship, 10 or 15 elk and bear teeth, cut, polished and per- 

 forated bone beads highly polished and showing much wear. 



*' Personally in my excavating I did not encounter any human 

 bones but am told that human skulls have been found in the refuse. 



'' The work performed thus far leads me to conclude that the 

 refuse was deposited at the top of the bank and washed down as 

 previously stated. 



" Parched corn and even cobs are frequently encountered. I also 

 found what I determined was a squash seed. Beans were found, 

 but were scarce. 



'' I do not know of nor have I read of another site anywhere in 

 Xew York State comparable with this for variety, richness in imple- 

 ments, masses of debris." 



Mr Follett afterward discovered that there had been a natural 

 gas spring in the creek bed. 



Specimens from the Site 



The cruder artifacts from the Reed Fort site are stone anvils, 

 matetes or lap stones, hammers of several types, notched sinkers and 

 fire-burned stones. 



The anvils and mealing stones are fragments of flat stone from 

 I ^ to 4 or 5 inches in thickness. They are seldom more than a 

 foot in diameter. Some are nearly square and others are more 

 circular, but no attempts were made to more than approximate 

 these geometrical proportions, and this only for the sake of con- 

 venience in handling. These stones are similar to those found on 

 many of the earlier sites in this region. 



The stone hammers are stones either natural or worked from 

 pebbles and of a size convenient for holding in one hand. The 



