316 THE; INDIAN OCCUPANCY 



Site No. 27. The "Big Flats" at Elma were occupied by a 

 Seneca village from 1780-1840. 



EVANS. 

 No village reported. 



GRAND ISLAND. 



Site No. 28. A burial mound was reported by H. L. Reynolds 

 and was explored by him. It is mentioned in Squier's 

 "Aboriginal Monuments of N. Y.", page 62, and is proba- 

 bly identical with one found on Mr. Gullinger's farm on the 

 Ransom Road. 



* Site No. 29. A village is to be found on the property of B. C. 



Rumsey on Lot No. 11, on the edge of East River. On it 

 are refuse heaps which contain potsherds, flakes, bone articles 

 and animal refuse. 



* Site No. 30. A village site occurs on the farm occupied by 



Mr. Van Son, on Lot No. Ill, on the edge of West River. 



There are some heaps which contain potsherds, flakes 

 and points of the notched type. 



On a low knoll a quarter of a mile eastward, on the Van 

 Son farm, was the cemetery of this village. It was excavated in 

 July, 1909, by the writer for the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences. Fifty-nine skeletons were exhumed, with which were 

 clay and brass kettles, iron axes, knives and awls, brass and 

 stone arrow points, shell beads, gorgets, and real wampum, bone 

 combs, clay pipes, one beautiful carved marble pipe, and a Jesuit 

 brass ring. 



The articles are identical with those found at St. David's 

 and farther west in the Niagara Peninsula. They seem to indi- 

 cate that the village was inhabited by Neuters. 



HAMBURG. 



No village sites reported. 



LANCASTER. 



No village sites reported. 



