NOTES ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
289" 
Dr. G. F. Matthew,* in his account of the excavations made at 
Bocabec for the study of the kitchen-middens there, states that the 
chipping of the lance and arrow heads was in some cases performed 
beside the fire-place, on stones or supports placed near the fire. 
Mr. Harry Piersf informs me that no relic like the one here des- 
cribed has yet been found in Nova Scotia. 
Pitted Stone. 
Fig. 1 (p. 288) represents a roughly rectangular block of fine grained 
sandstone, with a conical hole pecked in obverse and reverse sides. 
The stone is about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide and 2 inches thick. 
It weighs 1 lb. 9 ozs. The pecking seems to have been done with a 
sharp flint, and the marks of the tool can be plainly seen. The 
holes are exactly like those referred to in the next preceding note. 
The depth of the holes is three-eighths of an inch. This stone could 
have been held with the thumb and forefinger and used as a hammer 
stone, but it shows no marks of having been used for such a purpose. 
It was collected with two similar specimens by Mr. Duncan London 
on Ring Island, Maquapit Lake, in August, 1 899, and by him pre- 
sented to the Society. I am not aware that anything of this kind 
has yet been found in other parts of the province. 
Grooved Axe. 
Among relics of the stone age which have been found in the 
central part of New Brunswick, stone axes are the most common, and 
a good many specimens are to be found in collections. In other parts 
of the province, however, they are more rarely found, and at Bocabecy 
Dr. Matthew notes a remarkable scarcity of axes. 
Dr. R. Nicholson, of Newcastle, has placed in my hands a grooved 
stone axe (fig. 2) which differs from any axe in our collections in 
the angular character of the groove and in the form of the head. 
It was picked up in about three feet of water in the Restigouche 
River, opposite Dawsonville, in the summer of 1888. 
It is 4 inches long, the edge, which measures 2f inches, is rounded,, 
and the elliptical head has a flat hammer-like surface 2| inches long 
* Bulletin X. of this Society, p 17. 
t Letter to author. 
