Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . HAMMERSTONES FROM THE CELT SHOP NEAR LURAY, VIRGINIA; THREE-FOURTHS ACTUAL SIZE HOLMES) STEATITE QUARRYING 107 slopes where fllling-in place rapidly tliey are wholly instances occur in which the depressions now remaining are morethan 2 or 3 feet deep. The diameter of the pittiugs does not generallyexceed 20 or 30 feet, yet in cases they had the form of trenches orchains of pits extending for hundreds of feet along the strike of thedeposit. Mr Fowke describes an excavation seen by h
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . HAMMERSTONES FROM THE CELT SHOP NEAR LURAY, VIRGINIA; THREE-FOURTHS ACTUAL SIZE HOLMES) STEATITE QUARRYING 107 slopes where fllling-in place rapidly tliey are wholly instances occur in which the depressions now remaining are morethan 2 or 3 feet deep. The diameter of the pittiugs does not generallyexceed 20 or 30 feet, yet in cases they had the form of trenches orchains of pits extending for hundreds of feet along the strike of thedeposit. Mr Fowke describes an excavation seen by him near Cul-peper, Virginia, which is 150 feet in diameter and of undetermineddepth, being filled with water and debris. SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONSEarly Knowledge of Steatite The use of soapstone by the native races is frequently mentionedby early writers, but no information is given of the acquisition andshaping of the material. One of the earliest accoirnts of the work iuthis country is that of Mr Paul Schumacher, who discovered typicalquarries iu the state of California. His illustratio
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