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determined, or in undisturbed sand with no bones present, though they may have 

 gone through decay, were, singly or associated in considerable numbers : masses of 

 chert; rounded hammer-stones of chert; hones of sand-stone; pebbles; pebble- 

 hammers ; smoothing stones ; a mass of quartz, roughly chipped ; several arrow- 

 heads or knives ; a handsome pendant -1.5 inches long, similar to the others we have 

 described; part of a "Monitor" pipe of soapstone, highly polished; a pendant 

 chipped from a quartz pebble ; a demijohn-shaped pendant made of ferruginous clay- 

 stone ; a globular pendant with an arm for suspension projecting from either end ; a 

 rude globular pendant of hematite from which the grooved portion has broken ; a 

 globular pendant of decomposed material ; a barbed lancepoint of brown chert, some- 

 what over 4 inches in length ; a knife of light-brown chert, with curved cutting 

 edge, nearly 9 inches long, from which about 1 inch of the point is missing; shell 

 drinking cups; an ornament of ferruginous sandstone, about 2.5 inches long and 1.5 

 inches broad, flat on one side, convex on the other, with an unfinished perforation 

 on either face below the middle of one of the longer sides ; rude discs of shell; three 

 shark's teeth of the present geological period, two with perforations ; double pointed 

 instruments made from axes of marine univalves; three small fossil shark's teeth 

 without perforations; a sheet of mica, rudelj* given the outline of a lancepoint; 

 rectangular masses of silicified fossil wood, 7 or 8 inches in length, determined b\- 

 Mr. Lewis Woolman of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to have 

 belonged to a coniferous tree. One of these was roughly sharpened to a cutting 

 edge; the others had seen service as pestles or hammers. 



The earthenware in this mound, of which sixty-seven specimens were noted by 

 us, discarding parts of vessels and heaps of sherds, consisted of common types and 

 of inferior ware. The vessels lay. as a rule, near the base, often numbers together. 

 The first deposit was found at the very margin of the ENE. part of the mound. 

 Later, a considerable deposit lay somewhat in from the margin in the SW. side, 

 while here and there siuijle vessels were encountered throu2;hout the mound. 

 Numbers of vessels lay near the center, short distances apart. 



The majority of vessels, undecorated, or with a complicated stamp applied in a 

 faint and slovenly manner, were dropping to pieces when removed. Incised deco- 

 ration was met with in but five instances and of these but one showed earnestness of 

 endeavor. The features of the earthenware of the mound were the presence of four 

 feet on a large percentage of the vessels and the number of toy pots and bowls found 

 singly, here and there, in the sand, one of which had a diameter of but 1.5 inches- 



With but few exceptions all vessels had the basal perforation. 



Vessel No. 19. — Small, undecorated, imperforate. 



Vessel No. 20. — A toy vessel of very coarse ware, with four feet and rude 

 incised decoration. 



Vessel No. 21. — -An undecorated vessel of common type, witli four feet and 

 notches around the rim, imperforate. 



Vessel No. 22. — A cup of heavy ware, with fiat, circular base and inward slope 

 to the sides. The decoration consists of punctate impressions around the rim and, a 

 short distance apart, series of upright parallel rows of punctate markings (Fig. 233.) 



