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out, and is smoother than the surrounding merely hammered por- 
tion. Associated with the above was a globular quartz pebble, 
three inches in diameter, that may have been used in connection 
with the ‘* mill,” instead of. the crusher we have described ; or, in . 
first breaking the hard grains of corn the pebble may have been 
used, and the flat stone then used to reduce the cracked corn to 
meal. 
Mr. Evans figures (Anc. Stone Impl. G. B. p. 224, fig. 169) a 
‘“ hammer stone,” in size and shape identical with that we have 
described; and on pages 232-4 describes, under the name of 
**querns,” grain mills, that are in every respect identical, except 
that as a class they may be larger and more elaborate in finish. 
Near the mill and its accompanying stones, just described, we 
found four “ net-weights” as they are usually called. One was a 
globular pebble, with a shallow depression about it, that was 
roughly and very irregularly pecked. Another was a flattened 
pebble, with a notch well defined at each side; being of the more. 
abundant form of “ sinkers,” but much thicker: than the other two 
specimens, and than the notched weights generally are. One of 
the two thin, flat specimens was of more interest than these 
specimens usually are, in that there were thtee well defined 
notches. It is not easy to determine the use of this third notch. 
Near the sinkers were five rudely chipped implements (?) or 
more probably failures. While exhibiting abundant traces of hav- 
ing been worked by man, it is doubtful if they were ever put to 
any use. Their general appearance was not that of cores, either, 
from which flakes had been struck ; nor was there any trace of chip- 
ping having been carried on within the limits of the homestead we 
are now describing. A very rude implement is frequently found 
in this neighborhood, but on it a cutting edge is always a notice- 
able feature ; but in these there was nothing that could be called 
a as edge, except at one part of the larger of the five speci- 
men 
Spe tea to illustrations of ‘ drift” implements in Mr. Evans’ 
work above quoted, and to “Reliquiæ Aquitanice,” we find many 
80-called implements fully as rude as the least finished of the five 
above mentioned. What gives to these a peculiar interest, how- 
ever, is not their similarity to the ‘‘ drift implements ” of Europe, 
ut their association with some of the very finest wrought stone 
implements and arrowheads. It isa pore to know what the fash- 
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