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Many other village and camp sites are indicated on the map and are 

 from locations kindly furnished by L. D. Shoemaker and Ward E. 

 Bryan, both of Elmira. These gentlemen are the two chief authori- 

 ties on aboriginal localities in Chemung county. 



Chenango County 



List of Sites 



1 A horseshoe-shaped gravel bank, 4 miles north of Sherburne 

 and I mile west of Handsome brook with a curious extension seems 

 a natural formation, but arrowheads occur in the vicinity (Hatch, 



P- 74). 



2 West of the river and opposite Sherburne were four or five 

 open caches, close together and 4 to 6 feet deep and wide. In a 

 field north were stone chisels, pestles, axes and arrowheads (Hatch, 

 p. 74). This was i^ miles northwest of the village. 



3 In the present burial ground on the south boundary of Norwich 

 were human bones in great abundance, the skeletons buried nearly 

 upright, on the farm of C. M. Rouse. 



4 Near the residence of the late Abel Chandler in Norwich was 

 a mound much like western ones (Randall, p. 13). 



5 Village and burial site at the Indian fields a mile below the 

 creek bridge at Norwdch. (This place was a favorite Indian residence, 

 and was also the plain now occupied by the village of Norwich.) 

 Large flint points have been found near that village and stone axes 

 on the Unadilla (Child, Directory, 1869-70). Mr Squier quotes from 

 Clinton : " There is also a place at Norwich on a high bank of 

 the river called the Castle, where the Indians lived at the period 

 of our settlement of the country, and where some vestiges of a 

 fortification appear, but in all probability of much more modern date 

 than those at Oxford" (Squier, p. 47). Randall says there was 

 a recent work on the east side of the river a mile south of Norwich 

 called the Castle, much frequented by the Indians when the whites 

 came. There were traces of Indian villages near this (Hist. Mag., 

 1873, p. 13). " On the west of the river," he adds, "opposite this,- 

 was a space of a mile from north to south much frequented and 

 called the Indian fields." The Castle site is on the J. J. Slater farm 

 on the east bank of the Chenango. 



6 Skeletons were found in digging the Chenango canal 4 miles 

 north of Oxford, near the old Gates Tavern or Halfway House 

 (Hist. Mag., 1873, p. 13). West side of the river. Along the 

 river are found earthenwaix\ drills, arrowheads and flakes. 



