DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OF THE STONE AGE. 17 
within hut bottom A, where the chipping of the lance and 
arrow-heads was performed beside the fire-place on stones or 
supports placed near the fire. The flakes resulting from the 
manufacture of these implements were very plentiful in this 
part of the hut bottom. Very few flakes were found outside 
the hut, and these mostly beside stones used for wedging the 
poles of the frame-work that supported the covering of the 
hut. In the kitchen-midden, flakes are quite rare. It would, 
therefore, appear that the arrow and lance-heads were fabri- 
cated beside the fire-place, and apparently at times with the 
help of the fire-light, for the flakes were more abundant at 
the sides and back of the fire-place than in the front. The 
lance-heads were flat, and of a long oval pattern; a narrower 
and thicker point, of which one example was found, was pro- 
bably a javelin-point; and another that was triangular and 
barbed at the base, would be regarded as a spear-point. All 
the weapons of this type that we met with were made of pet- 
rosilex or a highly quartzose felsite, and most of the arrow- 
heads were fabricated from these rocks, but we found a 
few that were made of quartz and jasper. 
The arrow-points were chiefly of three patterns, viz., 
lozenge-shaped, lanceolate leaf-form and triangular, with 
lateral notches for securing the point to the shaft. Many of 
these arrow-points were rudely made, others more highly 
finished. The workmanship on one of the triangular, notched 
arrow-points of petrosilex rock could not be surpassed. It 
was finely serrated on the edges and had a fine tapering point. 
Another arrow-point of laurel-leaf form made of quartz was 
also quite symmetrical. 
There was a remarkable scarcity of axes and of the larger 
stone implements at these hut bottoms, Only one well-formed 
axe was found, and this was in the kitchen-midden under hut 
bottom B. A very large, ovate, lance-head of quarzite accom- 
panied this axe. In this lower kitchen-midden, which is 
connected with the hut bottom No. 1 already referred to, 
there were many flakes of a dark brown petrosilex of coarser 
grain than the black petrosilex from which many of the 
weapon-points of the higher kitchen-middens and hut bottoms 
