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and the Dunkirk road. At the foot of the hill just above the little 

 flat washed out by the brook a large ash bed was discovered. This 

 ash bed is 2^ by 47' in dimensions and 36" deep. It was filled 

 with carbonized material and disintegrated sandstone and drift 

 boulders. Several of these large ash beds were examined in the 

 locality but nothing which would give a clue as to their purpose 

 could be discovered. 



4 The Dennison site in the township of Gerry lies about a quar- 

 ter of a mile from the Charlotte township line. It is crossed by the 

 old Chautauqua road, but now may only be traced by careful exami- 

 nation. This work was explored and partially excavated in 1887 

 by Hon. Obed Edson of Sinclairville who donated to the museum 

 some of the human remains which he had taken from a large 

 ossuary here. The site is of the early Iroquoian type and no occu- 

 pied soil could be discovered. 



5 A site on which a group of 12 pits are still visible is situated 

 on the Sears farm near the site previously described. Nothing 

 could be discovered in the pits although all were excavated. 



6 The McCullough site on Gerry hill has already been described 

 at length. 



7 A glacial kame near Cassadra lake has a row of pits across 

 the top. These were opened, but nothing except a few kernels of 

 charred corn, a few flint chips and fire-broken stones remains to tell * 

 of their Indian origin. 



8, 9, 10 Three places near Cassadaga lake were examined. All 

 were old sites of early Iroquois culture. 



11 At the -head of Cassadaga lake upon the dividing ridge of the 

 watershed a small camp site was discovered. 



12 An interesting ash bed situated on the H. Carlson farm in 

 lot 46, Gerry, was examined. This bed is upon a little promontory 

 that juts out into the valley of a small stream sometimes called 

 Phelps pasture brook and is easily discovered by the low mound 

 of black earth which rises a foot or two above the surrounding" 

 surface. 



The bed is 40' by 45' in dimensions and 4' deep. It is 

 composed of a light sandy soil intermixed and colored black by 

 large quantities of pulverized carbonaceous material. Large num- 

 bers of sandstone blocks and granite boulders cracked and crumbling 

 are distributed through the mass. A large white pine stump 4^ 

 feet in diameter crowns the bed so that the work is plainly not that 

 of white people. Numbers of these ash heaps are found through- 

 out the county and form a problem yet to be solved. 



