HORN AND BONE IMPLEMENTS 271 



Fig. 103 is a short bone punch, cylindric, but expanding toward 

 one end for nearly half its length. This is in the collection of 

 F. H. Yail in Pompey Center, and comes from the fort, a little south 

 of his house, known as the Lawrence fort. Fig. 112 is much like 

 the last, but is longer, while the expansion is shorter. Some polished 

 bone beads were with this, of the same diameter and average length. 

 This is from the Atwell fort, and in the Bigelow collection. This 

 form seems most common in the early historic period. 



Fig. 131 is a cylindric and tubular horn implement, and may 

 have been a charger for powder. The narrower projection at one 

 end is an eight-sided stopper of horn. Found by Luke Fitch on a 

 recent site north of Watervale in Pompey. Fig. 301 is a well 

 worked cylindric bone, which is not perforated but may have been 

 intended for a bead. It came from a grave at Rochester Junction. 

 Fig. 297 is smaller than the last, but is of the same character and 

 from the same place. The same may be said of fig. 298, which is 

 much more slender than either. From their presence in a grave 

 and nicely rounded ends, it may be inferred that they were finished 

 articles, whatever their proposed use. Fig. 330 is a very neat 

 cylindric punch, w T ith the frequent neatly rounded ends, one of 

 which is expanded. It is from Rice's woods near Stone Arabia. 

 In the plate it is reduced in size, the true length being 3 inches. 



Fig. 341 is a curious article from Erewerton, 9 inches long, but 

 reduced in this plate. Dr Plato, the finder, thought it a tusk, but 

 it is probably horn. For more than half the length from the 

 rounded point it is cylindric ; thence toward the base it is more 

 quadrilateral, but with rounded edges. The base is abruptly and 

 uniformly compressed, and has a long rectangular perforation. In 

 Europe such holes were for holding stone points, but this does not 

 seem the purpose here. The implement follows the natural curve 

 of the material. Many curious things were found with this. 



Fig. 346 is another curious article of deer horn, resembling the 

 last in some respects but not closely. It is the lower part of an 

 antler, retaining the base almost unchanged. All the prongs have 

 been removed, and much of the surface dressed down. The tip has 

 been cleft and sharpened where it was cut off, and toward the base 

 is a rectangular hole, such as is found in the primitive bone whistle. 



