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"Hoe-shaped Implements." — Burial No. 79, adult, a delicate male or a female, 

 had shell beads at the neck and a "hoe-shaped implement" of volcanic rock, 5.3 

 inches long and 4.5 inches in maximum diameter of blade. There is no perforation. 

 No mark of use is apparent. 



Burial No. 88, adult, had shell beads and hairpins and an imperforate " hoe- 

 shaped implement" of volcanic rock, 6.3 inches long and 4.8 inches across the body. 

 It also bears no mark of use. 



With burial No. 105, an adult, was an interesting association of objects. By 

 the neck were massive beads of shell and an ovoid object of shell. On the chest 

 lay a " hoe-shaped implement " of felsitic rock, with a shank unusually long, the total 

 length being 9.4 inches, while the maximum diameter of blade is but 4.3 inches. 

 On one side of the shank are marks where a perforation has been attempted with a 

 tubular drill. A handle has encircled part of the shank beginning at the abandoned 

 perforation and extending back to about 1.5 inches from the end, as may be seen 

 in Fig. 60. 



Discoidal Stones. — Throughout the mound, in midden refuse, were a number 

 of flat pebbles rudely rounded for use as discoidal stones. 



At the elbow of Burial No. 45 was a beautifully 

 wrought discoidal stone of quartz, 3 inches in diameter,, 

 while near the hand of Burial No. 100 was a slightly 

 larger discoidal stone of Granulyte. Several smaller 

 discoidals of volcanic rock came from this mound. A 

 discoidal of clayey rock bore an incised cross (Fig. 61). 



" Celts." — Several hatchets and chisels of the usual 

 rocks were present in the mound. 



Miscellaneous. — Scattered throughout the mound, 

 but never with burials, were numbers of perforated peb- 

 bles, natural formations, to which we have already alluded. 



Several unassociated arrowheads were met with and one of quartz near the 

 head of a skeleton. 



Fragments of mica were encountered in places. 



Near skeletons were a small bowl seemingly made 

 from part of a geode and a beautiful little ornament of red 

 jasper, perforated for suspension (Fig. 62). 



Fig. 61. — Disc of clayey rock. 

 Mound in Thii' ' 

 Field. (Full s 



per. Mound in Thirtv- 

 ■ e Field. (Full - 



Fig. 62.— Ornament of red jas- Two discs of sheet copper were in disturbed earth 



near a skeleton, while two other skeletons had discs of a 

 similar type on either side of the skull. These ornaments, 

 one pair of which was 2 inches in diameter each, the other 1.5 inches each, were 

 of the familiar type, namely, an incused boss in the middle with a small central 

 perforation for attachment and marginal decoration of concavo-convex beading. All 

 apparently had been mounted on a thin layer of wood. 



With a skeleton were the remains of a sheet copper pendant in the shape of 

 an arrowhead with blunt point. 



