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ADZE BLADES MADE OF STONE 
Only one of the thirty-four adze blades found here, is whole. Most of 
the blades are made of hornblende schist, a few of basalt, impure arkose, 
slate, diabase, and granite-gneiss. All are flat-backed and asymmetric as 
viewed from the narrow sides. They vary in length from 2 to 4f inches. 
Considering that only one of the blades is whole, they were evidently 
subjected to considerable rough usage. 
Plate XIX, figures 6 to 9, illustrates the different kinds found here. 
The smallest specimen, 2 inches long, about 1 inch wide, and about 
i-inch thick, is made from a thin splinter of hornblende schist, with just 
enough rubbing done on it to produce a cutting edge. Another crude 
blade of the same material is illustrated in Plate XIX, figure 6; part of 
the sharp cutting edge is missing, and the attenuated poll suggests that 
that end was possibly thrust into a hole in some sort of handle. Figure 7 
shows a small, smoothly finished blade also made of hornblende schist 
and with part of the cutting edge missing. Figure 8 shows another small 
blade from the same kind of stone, rectangular in cross-section; the poll is 
left in the original unworked condition of the stone. The blade illustrated 
in figure 9, of basalt, is the only finished specimen found here, and the largest. 
Judging from the number of specimens found on the surface, and at 
Neutral sites elsewhere in this county and in Waterloo county, adze blades 
were just as numerous here as at later Neutral sites. 
MANUFACTURE OF STONE AXES AND ADZES 
Thirteen pieces of diabase, basalt, and hornblende schist appear to be 
in process of manufacture into either axes or adzes. Most of the specimens 
are fragmentary. Three pieces are incipient forms without any suggestion 
of a cutting edge, and five others are similar forms with the cutting edge 
either partly or wholly chipped into shape. Four specimens show signs of 
pecking or bruising. One small piece, of hornblende schist, about half an 
inch thick, has flattened sides, both more or less smoothed, and nearly 
straight, parallel edges. The cutting edge has been commenced by rub- 
bing one of the ends. Another specimen consists of a massive form, 
chipped from diabase, 9 inches long, 4^ wide, and 2f thick. 
Six of the broken ax and adze blades are in process of being reworked 
either into other implements of the same kind or for some other use. All 
of them have been rechipped, and some show pecking and grinding. One 
specimen has both edges deeply grooved by pecking. 
CHIPPING TOOLS 
Six, short, blunt sections of antler, with rounded or conoid ends, found 
here, were possibly used as chipping punches for arrows and other artifacts. 
Plate XIX, figures 1 to 4, shows the different kinds and sizes. The specimen 
illustrated in figure 1 is a tine broken from a deer antler, with the broken 
edge rounded off by rubbing; it is scarred for nearly half its length, possibly 
from use in flaking by pressure, and there is a scarred area near the tip, on 
the side shown, which may be the result of similar use. The specimen seen 
in figure 2 is made from a section of a tine. The smaller end is conoid and 
shows signs of use. The punch was possibly held so that the rounded end 
