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creek, was the large parallelogram work last described, 2 miles 

 above Ellington. Mr Reynolds gaVe a plan of one of these circular 

 works, which is essentially reproduced in figure 90. Another fort 

 was almost beside it (U. S. Bur. of Eth., p. 508, fig. 334). These 

 earthworks are early Chautauqua Iroquoian. 



39 The " old fort " on the hill above Ellington is one of the most 

 impressive of the hilltop fortifications in the State. It is situated 

 on a projecting hill that juts into the Clear creek valley and stands 

 like a sentinel guarding the procession of walled inclosures in the 

 valley to the north. Plate 155 gives the general appearance of this 

 earthwork. The walls form an ellipse measuring 175 by 270 feet 

 in their diameters. The site seems prehistoric. Some corded pot- 

 tery and an indeterminate pipe bowl were found. The occupied 

 layers contain very little. Any metallic material found on the site 

 is probably recent and due to the sugar camps and lumber sheds 

 once on the hill. There are several large pits where some religious 

 sect once dug for a " hidden book of revelation." 



40 An elliptic work in Ellington, on Clear creek, is 168 by 218 

 feet. There is no trench and the wall is wide. A stone mound, 4 feet 

 wide and 5 feet high, is 70 rods away and toward the creek (Cheney., 

 p. 42, pi. 6. fig. i). It is on Charles Gapleson's land, south side 

 of Clear creek and 2 miles east of Ellington (U. S. Bur. of Eth., 



p. 508). 



41 Large mound on a blufif above the valley on the Newel Cheney 

 farm in the town of Poland, lot 37. This is probably the largest 

 mound in the State. It is artificial and has a ringed wall about 

 it (see plate 158). 



42 Below the mound on the flat land are abundant traces of 

 early occupations by some non-Iroquoian tribe. 



43 A bone ossuary in Ellicott was near Dexterville. 



44 There were two mounds on Albert Tift'any's farm on the line 

 of the Holland purchase, i>^ miles east of Jamestown on the Elling- 

 ton road. A gorget was found in one (C S. Bur. of Eth., p. 505). 



45 There was a semicircular bank near h^alconer's on the James- 

 tc)\vn and Ellington road. It was near a stream and was 540 feet 

 long (U. S. Bur. of Eth., p. 505). 



In the i)resent Falconer cemetery was a mound that was destroyed 

 in grading the land. Relics are found nearby. 



46 An artificial mound, containing large French knives and other 

 relics, was opened near Jamestown a few vears a.oo. 



47 Skeletons were found under a large stump in Frewsburg. This 

 is near a village site. 



