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the bottom of an intrusion penetrating the older grave were several 

 quarts of charred acorns. A few charred beans and squash stalks 

 alone remain to tell of the former use of these famous Indian staples. 

 Fruits were barely represented by a few charred pits, thought to be 

 of the wild cherry. Tobacco, or a substitute for it, was discovered 

 in a charred state within the bowl of one of the terra cotta pipes. 



The artifacts obtained within the inclosure show that its ancient 

 occupants manufactured implements, utensils and ornaments of 

 stone, clay, bone, antler and turtle shell. They possessed moreover 

 brass of European origin from which implements and other objects 

 were made and also shell objects obtained in trade. Skins of ani- 

 mals, furs and vegetable fiber were also used, and the use of wood 

 may be inferred. 



Chipped stone implements, although quite abundant, were remark- 

 able for their paucity of forms. Nearly all were triangular blades, 

 doubtless in the main arrowheads, without notches or stems and 

 made of black or gray flint. The workmanship of course differed 

 considerably, some points being rather rude, others exquisitely thin, 

 symmetrically shaped and keen. A very few notched blades were 

 obtained, probably knives. Another type of what must have been 

 a cutting tool of some sort was found near a skeleton in pit 85. It 

 was long and rectangular in shape and bore distinct traces of a 

 wooden handle of some sort. A few beveled scrapers and a drill 

 or two complete the list of chipped implements found within the 

 inclosure. Rejects and unfinished implements were also obtained 

 in fair quantity. Similar forms prevailed upon the flood plain site, 

 an argument in favor of the theory that both places were occupied 

 by the same people, probably at the same time. Strange to say, on 

 the plateau just outside the embankment a few pieces of a dilTerent 

 character were picked up, perhaps relics of an earlier habitation. 

 These were large and notched forms unlike any found within the 

 fort or upon the flood plain site. 



A few celts, mostly rude or broken, were unearthed from the pits 

 and general refuse of the fort, and picked up on the flood plain, 

 but no grooved axes whatever ; in fact I have never heard of their 

 being found in the neighborhood. Water- worn cobbles, sometimes 

 pitted and showing use as hammers, were common ; there were also 

 a number with shallow pits but no trace of battering. The finding 

 of a broken metate like stone and a muller in pit 27 near a quantity 

 of charred corn indicates their probable employment in corn prepara- 

 tion. Several such metates and mullers were found. Net sinkers 

 made by notching the opposite edges of flat pebbles were plentiful 



