418 THE SENECA NATION 



The entire village site is now used as a sheep pasture, the 

 grass of which conceals any vestiges of occupancy. On the steep 

 hillside bounding the village on the west are numerous deep 

 refuse heaps, which contain great quantities of animal bones, 

 potsherds and some few stone and bone implements. Half way 

 down the slope is a curious ridge resembling a covered way or 

 sunken road ascending the bluff at an easy angle. This may be 

 natural, but it has every appearance of being artificial. No one 

 living in the vicinity seems to know anything about a roadway 

 there. 



The village cemetery lies at the extreme northern edge of 

 the village. It has been excavated, partly at least, by local 

 collectors and by Marvin Peck of West Bloomfield, who even- 

 tually sold his collection to the State. A local resident claimed 

 that about one hundred and fifty graves had been opened. 



The soil is gravelly and very hard to dig. The graves are 

 said to be deep. A large number of very fine articles were 

 exhumed with the bodies. Many of these are Stone Age articles, 

 amongst them numerous clay jars and pipes. Along with these 

 are numerous European articles. In a grave opened by Mr. 

 Hinman, a local collector, the skeleton was said to have been 

 covered with the remains of a fur robe containing a bear's skull, 

 over which was a layer of red cedar sticks. Beneath the robe 

 was a very large brass kettle, inverted over three clay vessels. 

 With the body was also a pipe bearing the effigy of a bear, 

 whose head was hollow and contained a small pebble, which 

 rattled when the pipe was shaken. With one skeleton were 

 found two small human effigies carved of bone. 



It is said that at the southern edge, in a knoll known as 

 "Fort Hill" a deep pit was found. 



Many of the articles found in the cemetery here were illus- 

 trated by Mr. Beauchamp in "Horn and Bone Implements of 

 the New York Indians", fig. 172 and 173, and in his "Earthen- 

 ware of the New York Aborigines", fig. 80, 91, 97, 113 to 116, 

 128 to 137, 144, 162, 213 to 216. 



The Warren Site. 



This is about two miles north of the preceding site on the 

 farm of Augustus Warren, whose house is directly opposite the 

 West Bloomfield station of the New York Central railway. 



