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pits and deposits are 6 or more feet in depth and filled with broken 

 stone, ashes, animal bones and broken implements with an 

 occasional fine specimen in good condition. As we have pre- 

 viously stated, the larger deposits were along the northeast bank, 

 sloping toward the falls. In many of these sidehill dumps the 

 ashes are several feet in thickness and have led some excavators 

 to think that the site was occupied for a prolonged period. Our 

 opinion is, however, that a village of one hundred to one hundred 

 fifty people occupying this site for ten years would produce the 

 amount of ash found in the dumps, especially if refuse as well as 

 fuel had been consumed. 



The present appearance of the site is that of a sloping sandy 

 hill edged by ravines and fringed with trees. The brooks flow the 

 year around and the larger one has a considerable fall over which 

 the farm owners have built a bridge. Above the falls it is possible 

 to walk along the edge of the brook and up the ravine for a con- 

 siderable distance. The ravine is wide and has a flat bottom 

 which gives ample space for the meandering of the stream. Near 

 the upper end of the fort from the base a natural trail runs up the 

 embankment along the projecting nose, but access is not easy 

 from any other point. Along this embankment from the falls 

 southward and up the ravine the debris may be seen mixed with 

 the talus. An excavation reveals quantities of animal bones, 

 broken pottery and fragments of implements. 



From the lower end of the fortification the trail runs down to 

 a sloping flat that gradually leads to the valley level. From this 

 point it is about one-fourth of a mile to the Hemlock outlet. 



The character of the implements found on the site are without 

 question prehistoric Iroquoian and presumably Senecan. Sites to 

 the northeast on the Alva Reed farm are non-Iroquoian, as are 

 most of the contiguous sites where relics are found in any quantity. 



