Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . holmes] THE WILSON STEATITE QUARRY 127 isleiitifiil. In the fields near the bouse masses project from the groundand fragments are scattered about in great i)rofusiou. A number ofworked places were seen, and a grooved pick made from a grooved axand tlie i)oint of an ungrooved pick of medium size were collected. Wilson ([uarry—The site most productive of implements for workingsteatite is located within 50 yards of the Patuxent, half a mile belowBrowns bridge, on the farm of Mr VV. F. Wilson. The (piarry si
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . holmes] THE WILSON STEATITE QUARRY 127 isleiitifiil. In the fields near the bouse masses project from the groundand fragments are scattered about in great i)rofusiou. A number ofworked places were seen, and a grooved pick made from a grooved axand tlie i)oint of an ungrooved pick of medium size were collected. Wilson ([uarry—The site most productive of implements for workingsteatite is located within 50 yards of the Patuxent, half a mile belowBrowns bridge, on the farm of Mr VV. F. Wilson. The (piarry siteshave been cultivated to such an extent that but slight indications ofthe ancient pits are seen. A few small outcrops of the steatite arefound, and within a radius of 60 feet about one of these over thirty.
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