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wise and has the natural slant of the cutting part of the tooth accentuated 
by rubbing. The cutting end of another is slightly rubbed also. Such 
specimens, if set in a handle, could have been used as chisels. A split 
fragment of a tooth, which has the broken part smoothed, producing a 
fairly sharp edge on the incurved side, may have been a knife blade. 
POINTS FOR DRILLS CHIPPED FROM STONE 
Twenty-seven specimens chipped from chert were probably used as 
points for drills. Five are more or less fragmentary. Thirteen of the 
whole points are suitably shaped, but crude and irregular chert chips, 
such as are seen in Plate XIX, figures 10, 11, and 14. Three are somewhat 
triangular, three lanceolate {See figure 13) and three others were originally 
notched points for arrows {See figure 15). 
The tips of many of these points are worn from use. The broad, 
not the more attenuated, end was used in the case of two that are lanceolate 
in shape. A specimen found at the Bertrand farm site also has the broad 
end worn. One point is worn at both ends. The tip of another is dis- 
coloured as if it had been frequently dipped in oil or some other substance 
while in use. 
Some of the points, especially those showing wear at both ends and 
those with broad bases (figures 10 and 14), were probably used in the 
hand gimlet fashion; others (figures 11, 13, and 15), may have been fastened 
to a handle or a drill shaft. The discoloured appearance of the smaller 
end of the point in figure 13 suggests that it may have been held in place 
with some glue-like or gummy substance. 
The fragmentary drill with a broad point, shown in figure 12, was 
probably used to drill the bowl cavity of stone pipes. The missing upper 
part may have been pointed for insertion in a drill shaft. 
Points for drills were as numerous here as at later Neutral sites in 
this county and in Waterloo county. 
SCRAPERS FOR WOOD-WORKING, ETC. 
Many chert chips with one or more edges trimmed to a bevel, may 
have been used as scrapers in working wood, bone, and antler. That they 
had a purpose is evidenced by their carefully finished appearance; the 
smaller specimens, especially, suggest some specific use. They are mostly 
concavo-convex, oval and oblong objects, with the edges delicately chipped 
off at a slant. The smallest specimen is inch long, wide, and f thick; 
the largest 1^ inches long, ^ wide, and | thick. 
WHETSTONES 
One hundred and eighteen w T hetstones were found, many of them 
fragmentary. The majority are made from finely grained pieces of shale 
and sandstone, but a few are of limestone and one of granite gneiss. Many 
are angular pieces with broken edges; others retain the waterworn edge 
of the pebble from which they are derived. Only one specimen seems to 
have its edges rubbed into shape. About one-third of all the specimens 
have both sides smoothed from use, a few others are deeply hollowed on 
one side, and one is worn to a deep hollow on both sides. They vary in 
thickness from about \ inch to about If inches. 
