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

 caches, close together and four to six feet deep and wide. In a field 

 north were stone chisels, pestles, axes and arrowheads. — Hatch, p. 

 74. This was one and one half miles northwest of the village. 



3 Human bones were also found in digging the canal on the west 

 side of the river. — Hatch, p. 75 



4 In the present burial ground on the south boundary of Nor- 

 wich were human bones in great abundance, the skeletons buried 

 nearly upright, on the farm of C. M. Rouse. Near the residence of 

 the late Abel Chandler in Norwich was a mound much like western 

 ones. — Randall, p. 13 



5 The Indian fields a mile below the creek bridge at Norwich was 

 a favorite Indian residence, and also the plain now occupied by 

 Norwich. Large flint arrowheads 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 fre- 

 quented and called the Indian fields. 



6 Skeletons were found in digging the Chenango canal four miles 

 north of Oxford^ near the old Gates tavern or Halfway house. — 

 Hist. mag. 1873, P- ^3- West side of the river. Along the river are 

 found earthenware, drills, arrowheads and flakes. 



7 A semicircular bank and trench in the village of Oxford oc- 

 cupied an eminence three or four acres in extent. The river is on 

 the west side of this eminence^ which rises abruptly from the flats, 

 and the descent to the water is precipitous. The bank was the base 

 of the half circle and there were narrow openings at the ends for 

 gateways. The area was three fourths of an acre. Mr Clinton says 



