514: MacCurdy — Passing of a Connecticut Rock Shelter. 



Indian George, Pine Rock and its Cave had been visited 

 by many classes in geology, but no one suspected that it had 

 been an Indian habitation. 



Prior to 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woodcock of High- 

 wood, local collectors of Indian relics, had noted the presence 

 of quartz and other chips on the surface. The city having 

 failed to take advantage of an opportunity to buy Pine Rock 

 at a reasonable price for park purposes, it was recently par- 

 titioned among three or four local concerns that exploit trap 

 rock. That part containing the Cave fell to the lot of A. N. 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 4. Section of the Cave as it appeared before the removal of the talus. 

 The relic-bearing deposits are indicated by horizontal lines, beneath which 

 is the level of the sand plain. 



Farnham. When he began in 1910 to remove the talus from 

 the Cave preparatory to blasting away the overhanging mass 

 of rock, Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock not only established beyond a 

 doubt the presence of a relic-bearing deposit, but were also 

 able to gather nearly a hundred specimens, chiefly stone imple- 

 ments. They found a*considerable quantity of pottery frag- 

 ments, but saved only a few pieces. Meanwhile other local col- 

 lectors and even Mr. Farnham's workmen were reaping an 

 archeological harvest; a number of important specimens were 

 also secured by the owner. 



The gradual spoliation of the Cave continued over a 

 period of perhaps two years, until on October 18, 1912, 



