Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . li111i< I~1-Q iij lul tiJU) 9 HOLMES) THE PINY BRANCH QUARRIES 45 The refuse about the roots of the chestnut tree coutaiued more thauthe usual perceutage of partially shaped tools, aud several bushels ofthese, showing rude leaf-shape outlines, were collected. A photographmade shortly after beginning the excavation shows the inclosure ofworked stones in the base of the tree and their prevalence in the massof refuse (plate xiv). THE SECOXK TRENCH A second trench carried across the old quarry in the spri
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . li111i< I~1-Q iij lul tiJU) 9 HOLMES) THE PINY BRANCH QUARRIES 45 The refuse about the roots of the chestnut tree coutaiued more thauthe usual perceutage of partially shaped tools, aud several bushels ofthese, showing rude leaf-shape outlines, were collected. A photographmade shortly after beginning the excavation shows the inclosure ofworked stones in the base of the tree and their prevalence in the massof refuse (plate xiv). THE SECOXK TRENCH A second trench carried across the old quarry in the spring of 1S90failed to furnish features of especial interest aud added little to the fundof information acquired from the trench made the previous year. It wasnot expected, however, that this second excavation would expose exten-sive deposits of refuse or well marked quarrying. The site was chosenin a depression, or incipient gulch in the slope, where no marks of dis-turbance could be detected, whereas the first trench was carried acrossa convexity in the face of the hill, which convexity
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