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Cylindrical Stone Beads. Xo cylindrical beads made of stone were 
found, but they have been discovered at other sites of the same culture else- 
where in this part of the province. 1 
Copper Beads. Xo beads made of native copper were found. 2 
Shell Beads. Six beads are made of shell, two of them being shells of 
a freshwater snail ( Campeloma decisum ) with a suspension hole broken 
through the lip (Plate XV, figure 8). Shells of this snail, similarly per- 
forated, have been found at Iroquois sites elsewhere in Ontario and in 
Xew York. The other beads (Plate XV, figures 9 and 10) are made from 
the columella of large ocean shells; all but one, which is fragmentary, 
retaining the spiral groove of this part of the shell. Most of them show 
the effects of burial in the ground and exposure on the surface, and they 
are in a more or less chalky condition. The smallest specimen is J inch 
long and the longest is 2J inches. The hole in three of the specimens is 
smooth throughout, but larger at the ends than in the middle; that in the 
bead seen in figure 9 shows the striae left by the drill. The scorings around 
the end of the bead in figure 10 were perhaps intended to be ornamental. 
Cylindrical shell beads are said to have been numerous at a site of the 
same culture, on lot 11, con. Ill, Augusta tp.; they are more numerous at 
post-European Huron, Tionontati, and Neutral sites in southwestern Ontario 
and in Iroquois sites in New York. 
Xo discoidal beads made of shell were found, but the discovery of small 
specimens at a site of the same culture, on lots 26 and 27, con. Ill, Edwards- 
burgh tp., Grenville co. (Cat. Xo. VIII-F-9143, National Museum), and 
at the site of Hochelaga (Dawson, 3, Figure 28), besides a few at an Onon- 
daga site in Jefferson county, New York (Skinner, 4:163), suggests that 
such beads were perhaps known to the people of the Roebuck site. 
Two worked pieces of marine shells suggest that these beads were 
made here; although it is possible that some of them reached the site in a 
finished state. 
Earthenware Beads. Thirty-two modelled earthenware beads, includ- 
ing three found by Mr. White, appear to be made of the tempered clay 
used in the manufacture of pottery. Twenty-five specimens are discoidal 
(Plate XV, figures 6 and 7), all but two having rounded peripheries; one 
is more or less spherical; and two are shaped like an oblate spheroid. Only 
a few are w^ell finished, and few have the holes centrally placed. The 
smallest is about inch in diameter and about T 3 (T inch thick, and the 
largest (figure 6) is 1 T \ inches in diameter and about inch thick; the 
holes are from about £ inch to inch in diameter. Only one of the beads 
is decorated (figure 7), both faces having a crudely drawn circle more or 
less parallel with the edge. None of them has the crenated periphery seen 
on earthenware beads found at Hochelaga (Dawson, 3, Figure 28), and at a 
site in Victoria county. 
'One comes from a site on lot 11, con. Ill, Augusta tp., Grenville co, (Cat. No. VIII-F-13572, Nat.Mus., Canada) 
and another from a site on lot 34, con. I, Osnabruck tp., Stormont co., Ont. ( See Wintemberg, 9, Plate XII, fig. 10). 
There is also one of limestone from an early Huron site, on lot 22, con. II, Eldon tp., Victoria co. 
Recording to Dawson (3: 165) a few copper beads were discovered at the site of Hochelaga. There is a tubular 
bead of brass, not copper, from that site in the Ludger Gravel collection (No. 59), Museum of the Canadian Anti- 
quarian and Numismatic Society, Montreal, which may be one of these referred to by Dawson. The museum 
catalogue describes it as a "bugle bead, made from Lake Superior native copper." Two cylindrical specimens of 
native copper are reported from a prehistoric Onondaga site in Jefferson co., N.Y, (Skinner, 4: 19, 29*30). 
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