296 Examination of Indian Graves in Chester Co., Pa. (May, 
number one, but lying on the left side, with the face turned 
upwards. Associated with the skeleton were the following arti- 
cles: Around the neck was found a large number of European 
beads, consisting of ten-sided amber-colored glass beads the size 
of a large pea, and quantities of small cylindrical Venetian beads 
colored white and blue. Three objects of aboriginal workman- 
ship were also found in this grave, consisting of two finely chipped 
gun-flints and a highly polished flat elliptical stone of a dark 
color, three inches in length. These were the only articles of 
native manufacture found in any of the graves. A quantity of a 
red clayey substance resembling paint occurred in this grave, 
which in all probability had been employed by the Indians in 
personal decorations. Close to the right hand of the body were 
found two European white clay-pipes of a pattern employed 
during the seventeenth century; on the bowls the maker’s stamp 
(R T) was impressed? Around the skeleton were found thirteen 
wrought-iron nails, two to three inches in length, much corroded, 
with fragments of decayed wood adhering to them. The body 
had evidently been enclosed in a wooden box. 
In the third grave, three feet nine inches below the surface, 
were found a skull and portions of bones much decomposed, the 
body extended on the back, face up, head toward the east, as in 
the preceding cases. In this grave nothing was found associated 
with the skeleton save a single coffin nail. 
Grave number four revealed nothing but some fragmentary 
bones. 
Mr. Marshall states that a couple of stones years ago were 
found on the surface of the burial-ground, which were covered 
with pictorial etchings. These were doubtless the same alluded 
1 In the beginning and middle of the seventeenth century, pipes were made z 
various makers in the vicinity of Bath, England. Amongst these was 
Tyler, and the initials R. T. in all E were impressed at his ae 
We can, therefore, with some degree of certainty assign to these pipes an approxi- 
mate date. The earlier British pipes, sometimes called “Elfin” or “ Fairy Pipes,” 
and by some antiquaries attributed to the Romans, made, however, in the reign of 
Elizabeth, frequently possessed the initials of the makers’ names on the bases of the 
flat spurs which charactetized them. These were gradually superseded by pipes 
with elongated bowls, in which the spurs or heels were pointed or entirely absent. 
The more recent English pipes of the last century or thereabouts had the names of 
the makers stamped on the stems. The examples in question are of the elongated 
pattern, minus the heel, with the Top stamped in the dowls. The stems have 
broken off about six inches from the bowls, having been originally ee They 
were brought to this country by tie earlier settlers and traded to the Indians. 
