ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK II9 



Mr Clinton described this as half as large as the last and of the 

 same form. Unto shells are also found here. — Squier, p. 32 



Mr Clark said the bank and ditch could easily be traced in 1793 

 and that the area was one and one half acres. It seems less than 

 this. He said there was a gateway on the west side about 12 feet 

 wide. His figure makes this wall slightly convex and all the others 

 straight. — Clark, 2:^2^. There is an abrupt descent on the west 

 side into a deep ravine and on the south there is a quick slope to 

 the Munro house. The east and north walls were on level land. 



43 Mr Clark also described a fort on lot 73 a little east of El- 

 bridge village. " On the site of Mr Caleb Brown's house and 

 garden, including a portion of the highway, was an ancient circular 

 fort, containing a little over an acre of ground, within which were 

 evidences of a blacksmith shop," and many common relics. — Clark, 

 2:327. All Elbridge forts, however, were prehistoric. 



44 The same writer says, ." On lot 84, on the farm now owned 

 by Caleb Brown, esq., (1849) about 40 rods south of the road was 

 a circular fort which covered over three acres of ground." . There 

 was a wide gate on the west and a smaller one on the northeast 

 side. A cache was mistaken for a well and near " the western 

 gateway were found several pieces of timber, having the marks of 

 iron tools upon them." Pottery and shells were abundant. Mr 

 Clark's plan appears in fig. 65. 



45 He also described an open village on lot 83 south of Elbridge 

 village where he said hundreds of grooved stone axes had been 

 found, and numerous arrowheads as well as a stone for sharpening 

 tools. — Clark, 2:324. Grooved axes are so rare in New York that 

 the writer made special inquiries and found that this was an error. 

 None are known there. 



46 Two or three camps occur on lot 62, Salina near the north- 

 east angle of Onondaga lake and scattered lodges toward the out- 

 let. The spot shows no permanent occupation and relics vary 

 greatly in character. 



47 Farther south there are camps and hamlets toward the north 

 line of Liverpool and east of the lake and on both sides of the 



