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Stone disks are common at Tionontati sites in Grey and Simcoe 
counties, and at Huron sites in Simcoe, York, and Victoria counties. They 
are especially numerous at sites in the latter county, seventy-four speci- 
mens in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, coming from 
the townships of Bexley, Eldon, and Fenelon. Perforated disks, although 
not so numerous as the imperforate ones, are found at sites in Simcoe, 
York, and Victoria counties (See author, 9, Plate XII, figure 12). Both 
perforated and imperforate disks have been found at Iroquoian sites in 
Ontario county, New York {See Parker, 6, Plate 121, figure 1) ; they are 
also found at sites of other cultures elsewhere in the United States (See 
Mills, 3, Figure 20, and Smith, 1, Plate XLII1). 
There are forty-eight potsherd disks chipped to a circular shape, 
which are probably unfinished, and two hundred and seventy-one others 
with the edges rubbed more or less smooth. Most of them are made from 
plain fragments, a few being from pieces of the neck and shoulder; a few 
others are derived from fragments with paddle markings (Plate XV, figure 
14) and from decorated pieces, principally parts of rims (Plate XV, figure 
17). Two of them, one of which is seen in Plate XV, figure 16, have a 
row of what seem to be finger-nail impressions across the concave side of 
the disk. Another specimen, derived from a plain sherd, has two crude 
and more or less parallel incised lines across the concave side, and one 
bears a faintly marked X (Plate XV, figure 15). None of the disks is 
perforated as at Iroquoian sites elsewhere in Ontario. 1 Imperforate disks 
were found at two other sites of the same culture nearby and Dawson 
records their occurrence at the site of Hochelaga (1:436). They are com- 
mon at early Huron sites in Victoria county, as many as forty-eight coming 
from one site in Bexley township; and they also occur at Tionontati and 
Huron sites in Simcoe and York counties, and at other Iroquoian sites 
in Ontario and Jefferson counties, New York (Parker, 5:20, and, 6, Plato 
121, figures 6-12). Potsherd disks have not been reported from Algonkian 
sites in Canada, but they are common at sites of other cultures in the 
United States. 2 
Eight disks, modelled from pottery clay, if they are not abortive 
attempts to form beads, such as are described on page 63, may have served 
the same purpose as the disks made of potsherds. Five of them are more 
or less flattened on both sides, with rounded peripheries; one is plano- 
convex; and another is somewhat concavo-convex. The smallest is inch 
in diameter and the largest lf^ inches. 
Judging from their scarcity here and at Iroquoian sites elsewhere in 
Ontario and in New York, and at sites of other cultures in the United 
States, 3 disks were seldom modelled in clay. Only one has been reported 
from an Iroquoian site in Victoria county, and another comes from a Seneca 
site in Ontario county, New York (See Parker, 5, Figure 4). 
These stone, potsherd, and modelled earthenware disks and the charred, 
wooden, disk-like object in Plate XVIII, figure 4, were possibly used as 
! There are fifteen perforated specimens from Victoria county in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 
Toronto. They have also been found at Neutral sites in Oxford (Wintemberg, 8, Plate XXIII, figs. 3, 4) and Elgin 
counties (idem, 9, Plate XII, fig. 14). 
*See Mills, 3: 49 (Ohio); Smith, 1; 210 (Kentucky); Harrington, 2: 240 (Arkansas), and, 3: 195 (Tennessee); Moore, 
1; 34, 38, 101 (Georgia), 2: 149-150, 164 (South Carolina), 3: 294, 298 (Alabama), and, 4 , 504 (Florida); Culin, 2, fig. 
188; and Jeancon, p. 62. 
S A11 those of which the writer has any record come from Arkansas (See Moore, 7: 84, and, 8: 279, 284, and 327). 
