. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . Fig. 75, (18,227) lay; but when the tinder take this specimen from undisturbed soil,no matter at what depth, the case is very different. In this instancethe conditions, if not uncertain, were not mentioned. The tool is considerably weathered, especially the tang portions,showing the peculiar fibre-ridges so often found on long-exposed,cold-hammered, copper articles. Figure 75, (18,227), was found by Mr. Alexander Miles, andforms part of the collection presented by Mr. George E. Fig. 76, (3,705) full size. What one may suppose to
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, . Fig. 75, (18,227) lay; but when the tinder take this specimen from undisturbed soil,no matter at what depth, the case is very different. In this instancethe conditions, if not uncertain, were not mentioned. The tool is considerably weathered, especially the tang portions,showing the peculiar fibre-ridges so often found on long-exposed,cold-hammered, copper articles. Figure 75, (18,227), was found by Mr. Alexander Miles, andforms part of the collection presented by Mr. George E. Fig. 76, (3,705) full size. What one may suppose to be another tool of the same kind isshown by figure 76 (3,705), taken from the bed of the Rideau nearOlivers Ferry at low water, by Dr. T. W. Beeman. Pottery. The pieces of pottery here illustrated, figures 77 and 78, (25,439)and (25,457), were taken by Mr. Walter M. Dick from a grave onthe Walker farm near Brantford, a locality that has yielded con-siderable quantities of relics, although hitherto no whole specimensof clay vessels have been found. Both vessels are in the main, ofthe usual type, differing only in being perfectly plain with the ex-ception of the shallow cremation along the edge of figure 78, and someslight incised markings on 77. • 1904 ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT. 51 When native-made pottery is present, whether whole or in frag-ments, on rock ledges or in recesses, in graves or on village sites,it points almost certainly to a time anterior to the Indians com-
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