. The Antiquarian [serial]. fragments of pottery, heaps of shells,broken pestles, flakes, net sinkers, hammer-stones and arrows are plentiful; celts, spearsand grooved pebbles are also quite one perfect mortar has been found here. It is not uncommon to get from twenty-five tofiity perfect arrow-points, one to three celtsand as many spear points at a visit. I have in my possession a very interestingchipped flint specimen, which was foundon this field a number of years is seven inches long and is madeof blue-gray flint, very nicely finished and isentirely unlike anything else
. The Antiquarian [serial]. fragments of pottery, heaps of shells,broken pestles, flakes, net sinkers, hammer-stones and arrows are plentiful; celts, spearsand grooved pebbles are also quite one perfect mortar has been found here. It is not uncommon to get from twenty-five tofiity perfect arrow-points, one to three celtsand as many spear points at a visit. I have in my possession a very interestingchipped flint specimen, which was foundon this field a number of years is seven inches long and is madeof blue-gray flint, very nicely finished and isentirely unlike anything else ever found here(to my knowledge). I call it a dagger. A. P. BARROTT. Owego, N. Y. THE ANTIQUARIAN. Editorial Staff: Dr. J. F. Snyder, Editor-in-Chief, Virginia, 111.; Dr. Clarence Loveberry,Columbus, O.; Harlan I. Smith, of American Museum Natural History, Associates.(The Landon Printing and Publishing Company, Publishers.) Volume 10. Columbus, Ohio, October, 1897. Single Copies, IS Subscription, $ ARCH 01 THE ARCH OF AUGUSTUS AT AOSTA. The sketch presented of this splendidspecimen of Roman art erected over nine-teen centuries ago, and still standing in thehumble village of Aosta, on the TurnAlps, was intended to accompany and illus-trate the interesting paper written by Bushnell, Jr., that appeared in our Sep-tember issue, descriptive of the antiquitiesstill to be seen there, but arrived too late tobe inserted in its proper place. We receiv-ed with this delayed plate a note from , in which he says: The Arch of\ugustus that rises above and a little to AUGUSTI the east of the village, is one of the mostbeautiful and best preserved of the Romanmonuments in all Italy. The accompany-ing view is from a photograph taken bymyself on the 25th of June, last. It is look-ing from the east toward the town. Underthe arch passed the via militaris, which,during the historic era of Roman suprem-acy was the principal military road acrossthe Alps t
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