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Points Rubbed out of Stone 
Points rubbed out of stone were not found on Merigomish harbour. 
To the south of Milton, Queens county, a few long, one 18 inches long, 
bayonet-like points made of slate and polished, have been found 1 . 
A specimen (Cat. No. 3694) in the Provincial Museum is from Shuben- 
acadie river, Hants county, and another of greenish slate, in the same 
museum, is supposed to have been found in Lunenburg county, as it is 
in the Des Brisay collection from that place. These are beautifully 
finished, long, delicate, and fragile. A lanceolate point rubbed out of 
stone, lenticular in section with a nearly rectangular tang, and supposed 
to be an artifact of the Beothuk Indians, is in the Provincial Museum 
(Cat. No. 3394). It was found at La Couchs, near the mouth of White 
bay in northeastern Newfoundland. 
Simple Bone Points for Arrows, Harpoons , Etc. 
Simple points were usually made of solid strips of the walls of large 
bones, and are roughly oval in cross-section with a tendency to have 
slightly wedge-shaped bases (Plate V, figures 10 and 12). Two or three, 
however, are decidedly lenticular in cross-section. The section of the 
shaft in some varies somewhat from the type, probably chiefly because 
of the lack of finish; the object retaining partly the form of the piece of 
bone from which it was cut. They are If to 6f inches long, and vary 
in shape (Plate V, figures 1-13). None seems to be made of antler; only 
one specimen is of ivory, and it may be a fragment of a harpoon point 
or an awl instead of being a simple point. 
Twenty-seven entire specimens were found in the heaps on the harbour, 
twenty-five of them in heap A, one in heap D, and one probably in heap B. 
Thirty points broken from such simple points, thirty-one sections of shafts 
lacking both ends, and thirty-three basal ends were found in heap A; nine 
points, twelve shafts, and seven bases in heap D; one shaft in heap L; three 
points, three shafts, and five wedge-shaped bases in heap M. In all, one 
hundred and sixty-one specimens were obtained from the excavations on 
the harbour. According to the catalogue of the Patterson collection, three 
points made of bone were found in the prehistoric cemetery, and four on 
the Millar farm. 
Only a very few of the fragments considered as basal ends may be 
point ends and vice versa. A few of these fragments, especially those 
which were too small to identify easily, may have been parts of objects 
made for other purposes, such as awls, which are described on page 64, 
(Plate XVII, figures 3-16). The objects considered to be awls on page 
64, (Plate XIX, figures 16, 17) may have been points, the transverse incisions 
being to facilitate lashing to a shaft or fish-hook. Some of the other 
objects considered as awls may have been points. 
At least some of the point fragments and even the larger base fragments 
may be broken parts of barbed harpoon points. A semi-cylindrical piece 
of ivory found in heap A is probably part of the shaft of a simple point, 
but possibly may be a fragment of a harpoon point or an awl. A simple 
shaft of much decayed bone was found in heap L. Of the eleven pieces of 
1 Cf. Piers (a), p. 112. 
