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FOURTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I907 IO5 



Stone objects. Articles of stone were not numerous and at 

 the Gerry site only three celts were found and these outside the 

 inclosure on the higher ground. 



No hammer stones or anvils were found but arrow chippings and 

 triangular flint points were fairly numerous. 



Bone objects. No bone implement or object of any descrip- 

 tion was found in the village site and the only bone object found 

 whatever was the heron bill near the forehead of the male skeleton 

 in grave 6. 



Sites examined 



A list of the earthworks and village sites examined in Chautau- 

 qua and Cattaraugus counties follows. From two to five days or 

 more were spent in the examination of each in order to determine 

 their character and the culture represented. 



1 An earthwork situated on a bluff at the confluence of a small 

 brook with Mill creek is described by the old inhabitants as a cir- 

 cular work with a deep depression in the center. This is situated 

 on the Margaret Harris farm. No part of the earth wall remains 

 although the excavation in the , center is yet visible. It however 

 seems natural rather than artificial. Few traces of occupation 

 could be discovered although several days were spent in testing and 

 excavating. Some flints and fire-cracked stones were strewn on 

 the bank above Mill creek, but there were no pits or pottery. 



This work is mentioned in State Museum bulletin 32, Aboriginal 

 Occupation of New York, as no. 24 in Chautauqua county. 



2 There was an extensive earthwork and village site in the heart 

 of the village of Sinclairville. Cheney's plan and description are 

 erroneous. The site was examined and a map made from an actual 

 survey by Hon. Obed Edson of Sinclairville. This earthwork 

 belongs to the prehistoric Huron-Iroquois, and triangular points and 

 pottery are found each year as the lawns are graded and gardens 

 tilled. 



3 The Edmunds site. An interesting camp site, discovered on 

 Pine hill is situated on the Edmund's farm in the town of Char- 

 lotte. 27 pits were opened here and a quantity of pottery found. 

 Two crushed pots were found in pits on the nose of a sandy 

 projection that ran out from Pine hill into the valley of Edmund's 

 brook. One large pit had a stoned floor and was walled with slabs 

 of shale. This was evidently a cache or storage cellar. The 

 Edmund's site is about one mile from Cassadaga creek and is sit- 

 uated between the Dunkirk, Allegany Valley & Pittsburgh track 



