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who fought him near the village. A hollow tree fell many years 

 ago on this area and it was found to contain a large number of 

 old giunbarrels. 



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The Beal Site. 



This site is on the farm of A. N. Beal, on the south side of 

 Cherry street, half a mile west of the main road from Victor to 

 Holcomb. It is in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, the road 

 which passes it being the line of division between Victor and 

 East Bloomfield. It is one and a half miles, south of the site of 

 Gandagora on Boughton Hill and a mile west of the cemetery on 

 the farm of John Bunce, which I excavated in 1910. It occupies 

 an irregular knoll, is surrounded on three sides by brooks, which, 

 however are dry in summer, and covers perhaps fifteen acres. 

 The soil is clay loam underlain by heavy red clay, in which 

 are sand pockets. 



On the surface are numerous rather thick refuse heaps, 

 which contain abundant articles. Glass beads, clay pipe frag- 

 ments of Indian and European make, some clay potsherds, shell 

 pendants, gun flints, points, and numerous bullets and gun frag- 

 ments are turned up every spring. I secured a number of articles 

 from these refuse heaps from a boy who lives there. 



Skeletons had been found on the edge of the site at the crest 

 of one of the knolls into which it is divided. This is now under 

 cultivation and I was unable to test at the exact spot where they 

 were found, but I tested unsuccessfully as near to it as I could 

 come. 



Burials were finally found on a lobate knoll on the western 

 edge of the site where no signs of graves or occupancy had ever 

 been found up to that time. They were unusually deep in clay 

 or in the sand pockets. The clay was so hard that my rod was 

 practically useless and accordingly test holes were put in with 

 the post hole digger a yard apart at first, but later still closer, 

 until the entire knoll had been explored. Testing was made 

 simple by the fact that every burial was marked by charcoal at 

 the depth of a foot or more. Thirty-four bodies were found. 



The burials of this site are mainly of bones rather than of 

 entire skeletons. Many were in pits of which 5 were found, 

 some containing as many as six bodies. But two skeletons were 



