BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 419 



It occupies the terrace on the eastern side of Honeoye 

 Creek. The bank at this point is about fifty feet high, and is 

 separated from the creek by extensive flats, which are in some 

 places one hundred yards wide. The soil is gravel, loam and 

 sand. The entire surface is under cultivation. 



At the time of my visit the crops of clover and timothy 

 effectually concealed all traces of any possible occupancy. 



A cemetery was said to have been exhumed in a series of 

 knolls on the extreme western edge of the village. Many graves 

 were opened here, and some of the articles, some say most of 

 them, were bought by Mr. Marvin Peck and later sold by him 

 to the State. A clay jar is said to be owned by Mr. William 

 Brooks of Honeoye Falls. Colonel Moulthrop, principal of 

 School No. 26, in Rochester, is said to have some of the articles. 

 Mr. Wm. H. Adams, in a manuscript owned by the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences, says that he obtained from graves 

 here great quantities of pottery and pipes which came from 

 graves in the higher part of the cemetery, and brass kettles and 

 glass beads from the lower part. He further says that the 

 graves were in regular rows and at a regular distance apart, 

 and that the bodies lay flat at full length. He found three clay 

 dishes in one grave, and in another a "rattle" made of two 

 circular pieces of skull, cut from the front and back of the skull, 

 and each perforated with four holes. 



It is entirely probable that some of the jars figured in 

 Beauchamp's "Earthenware of the New York Aborigines", 

 previously noted as having probably come from the Factory 

 Hollow site, were really from this site. 



The Appleton Site. 



This is on the farm of Mr. Appleton, on the eastern bank 

 of a small stream called Fish Creek, at the forks of a road, one 

 and one-fourth miles northeast of Holcomb station. 



It occupies portions of three fields, one being an apple 

 orchard. The sod is heavy red clay loam, and a few refuse 

 heaps were visible at the time of my visits. From these I took 

 some scrap brass, some glass beads and animal bones. 



No cemetery has been found near this village. I tested 

 several knolls nearby without success, though skeletons have 

 been found in a gravel pit across the creek. 



