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relics have been found, together with copper and iron articles. The 

 site has been identified with the "Seneca villag-e of Dyudosot, which 

 was destroyed in 1687. 



Mr Follett's notes give the following: 



'*A large and important village located on the farm of John 

 Cleary south and east of Dutch hollow and very close to the town 

 line of Avon and Lima and bounded on the south by the state ditch 

 which drains south Lima swamp. There is considerable controversy 

 as to the identity of this site. Doty identifies this site as Dyo-du- 

 de-sot, or at the spring. The spring is an unusually large one located 

 to the northwest of the site, as it is divided by a small knoll and 

 fences at the present time. There is also a spring on the south edge 

 of the site, and the ditch now maintained by the State must have 

 been a good stream of water in the days of habitation of this village. 



" Old residents say that when this field was first plowed it yielded 

 iron axes by the wagon load and which is undoubtedly so, as similar 

 sites are described heretofore. Doty claims destroyed by the 

 Marques DeNonville, but do not find any other mention of it in 

 history. 



" Surface yields large quantities of Jesuit beads, shell beads, 

 notched arrows (small quantities). The small triangle points are 

 numerous, copper and brass points, ibrass awls, bone awls, bears' 

 teeth, cylindrical brass beads, iron axes, brass pendants. I have 

 found two of the grooved stones on this site which are described in 

 state books and are very rare. Large quantities of clay pipe stems 

 are found on the surface, some whole ones have been found. 



" The refuse heap is located on the north side of the site on low 

 land except that there is a small knoll which is evidently formed by 

 the refuse, about fifty feet in diameter about two feet deep in the 

 center, ashes 18 inches deep has been well dug over and yielded many 

 fine bone awls, pipes, beads, harpoons, bone fish hooks, copper 

 scrap and copper beads, parched corn in good condition, animal 

 bones, bear, deer, beaver, dog, and many smaller animal bones 

 exist, also pig teeth. The burial site has been tested for by several, 

 without results to 191 3. On the eastern edge of the site on top of a 

 sand knoll is a white settlers' burial ground bearing some very old 

 dates and epitaphs, probablv thirty-five or forty graves. It is pos- 

 sible this was used by the Indians. Tests made in 1914; no burial 

 located." 



17 Village sites on lot 274 in the town of Avon. These are on the 

 Wiard property one-half of a mile north of Avon village. More than 

 40 acres are embraced in the tract, which includes earlier and recent 



