BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 321 



Village Sites and Burial Places in 

 Niagara County, N. Y. 



The Sites marked with a star (*) have been visited by the writer. 



CAMBRIA. 



* Burial Place No. 38. Ossuary on the property of Benjamin 

 Gould, L,ot 44, Range 8, near Cambria Center. It is locat- 

 ed on the edge of the upper plateau of the "Mountain 

 Ridge". Mr. Turner excavated it in 1823 and described it 

 in his book, ' 'The Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase' ' . 

 It was them surrounded by a wall which enclosed about six 

 acres. In the center of the enclosed area, there was a pit 

 filled with human bones, covered with slabs of stone. He 

 claimed that ' 'hundreds' ' of skeletons were exhumed, together 

 with iron and copper implements, presumably iron axes and 

 brass kettles. 



In 1908 great quantities of fragments of human bones 



were to be seen on the surface. Pottery and a triangular arrow 



point were found. 



Mr. Squier mentions this ossuary in his "Aboriginal 



Monuments of New York' ' . He estimated that it contained the 



bones of "several thousand individuals". 



Mr. Beauchamp refers to it and says that it is undoubt- 

 edly Neutral. 



Mr. H. R. Schoolcraft (Notes on the Iroquois, P. 450) 



mentions this ossuary. He estimated that 4,000 persons were 



buried there. 



HARTLAND. 



Nothing reported. 



LEWISTON. 



Site No. 39. Village site, known as "Kienuka' ' . This is located 

 near the north line of the Tuscarora Reservation, on the farm 

 of Thomas Williams on Lot No. 61 (?), Range No. 8. It lies 

 on the edge of the second (lower) escarpment of the Moun- 

 tain Ridge, at the point where it is broken by a small brook, 

 a branch of Twelve Mile Creek. 



