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in the state coliection. Farther east on the hillside was a scattered 

 early site with graves. 



8i Mr Clark mentioned the Sheldon site on lot 69 but only 

 said it resembled other forts. It occupies the most commanding 

 situation of any in the county, and is on a high and steep bluff 

 south of the Hollow road and of a stream flowing into East Lime- 

 stone creek. The bluff is nearly or quite 300 feet high, precipitous 

 on the north side with an abrupt slope on the east and south. 

 There is a depression on the west. The summit is a plateau of 

 about 450 feet from north to south with a width of 350 feet 

 at the north end and of 230 feet at the south. It was occupied 

 for some years and recent articles are found. There is higher land 

 beyond the western depression. The probable date is about 1630. 

 Fig. 87 shows this site, the town covering the whole plateau. 



82 A mile south of Delphi was a stockade between two ravines 

 on H. Chase's land, lot 99 with a cemetery on the south just over 

 the Fabius line. Clark located it on lot 100 which it almost reaches. 

 His plan is too large and broad; a better one is given in fig. 74. 

 Mosf of the fort is now obliterated, but it was long and narrow, 

 about 250 by 750 feet. Most of the lodges were near the north 

 end. The two grooved boulders in the southeast corner have 

 been removed. Postholes yet remain in a shallow trench, averag- 

 ing about two feet from center to center, half the distance stated 

 by Clark. He said that bodies were buried here " one row with 

 their heads to the west and the next row with their heads to the 

 east." Another odd statement of early settlers was that " the pali- 

 sades were set in the bottom of a ditch which was in some places 

 6 feet deep." Recent articles are found. 



83 On the south line of Pompey, lot 98, extending into lot 

 8, Fabius was a circular stockade on a hill of which fig. ^6 is a plan. 

 Nearly a quarter of the fort is still in woodland and it had a 

 diameter of about 225 feet. Some European articles are found 

 but it was an early village located two and one half miles south- 

 west of Delphi. * 



84 About a mile northwest of the last, on lot 97, west of Car- 

 penter's pond was a cemetery with brass kettles. 



