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This is an exclusively Iroquoian design and is found at sites of the 
same culture as Roebuck in Glengarry county, at the site of Hochelaga 
( See Dawson, 1, Figure 10, and 3, Figure 22/), at an early Huron site in 
Victoria county, and in New York ( See Beauchamp, 2, Figure 73). 
The earthenware pipe, probably from this site, seen in Plate XVI, 
figure 22, resembles a corn-cob and it is probable that the incised reticulate 
design was intended to show the kernels. 
Modelled plant representations are scarce at Iroquoian sites, the writer 
knowing of only two other examples, both of them on pipes from Huron 
sites in Simcoe county {See Boyle, 13, Figure 14, and Hunter, 2, Figure 8). 
The incised zigzag on one side of the stone object in text Figure 3, and 
on two bone objects, one of which is seen in Plate XIV, figure 31, may have 
been intended to represent lightning. 
It is hard to say what the X-like figures on the front of the stone pipe 
(Plate XV, figure 47), and on the clay concretion in Plate XV, figure 18, 
signified. They differ from other crosses on artifacts from Iroquois sites 
in Ontario in being more like a St. Andrew's cross than a Greek cross 
{See Boyle, 9, Figures 5, 9). 
The representation of pot forms on the bowls of earthenware pipes may 
be considered here. They have the overhanging collar characteristic of 
most Iroquoian pots, and two even have angular lips like those on some of 
the rims. 
METHOD OF BURIAL 
The mortuary customs of the people of this site differed from those of 
their Huron kindred, the dead being buried in the ground and not exposed 
on scaffolds or deposited in communal graves; at least no evidence of the 
latter custom was discovered here or at nearby sites of the same culture. 
Human remains had been discovered in past years, so near the surface 
that they were brought up by the plough. The late William Hutton is said 
to have found a human skeleton, accompanied by the remains of a dog, 
while digging a pit in that part of the site near the western edge of the 
Kelso portion. Some years ago Mr. White, while digging a post hole south 
of his barn, and north of refuse deposit 18, came upon a skeleton; and a 
few years later pigs rooted out several skulls from beneath the barn. While 
making the excavations for Mr. Starr's barn a skeleton was found that had 
been buried full length. A portion of a skeleton (No. 84) was unearthed in 
1924 by Mr. Henry, the present owner of the Starr farm, about 1 foot west 
of the line fence between the White and Henry farms, and about 8 feet 
south of the barn. The writer secured other parts of this skeleton and those 
of another (No. 85) buried about 2 feet farther south. 
The distribution of the graves w r as not governed by the character 
of the various parts of the site, as graves could be easily dug anywhere 
on the sandy hill; eighty-three burials, as seen on Map 1599, were in prac- 
tically all parts of the area excavated, in a few cases even at the edge of 
the swamp at the foot of the hill. Most of them were close to each other 
in groups and a few were isolated. There were forty-nine skeletons along 
the bank of the south side of the site, thirty-nine of them within or near 
the area covered by refuse deposit 1, as shown on Map 1600; five were in 
