. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 653 22. On lot 84 was a circular earthwork, with two gateways, and said b}^ Clark to have included three acres, but his estimates i)rove almost always too high. Earthenware always occurs in earthworks or stock- ades, and often river shells in the north part of the county. Toicn of Van Buren.—2C. xVn Indian orcliard was located on lot 18. 27. Here was a small hamlet, on lot 1(5, with pottery, ar
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 653 22. On lot 84 was a circular earthwork, with two gateways, and said b}^ Clark to have included three acres, but his estimates i)rove almost always too high. Earthenware always occurs in earthworks or stock- ades, and often river shells in the north part of the county. Toicn of Van Buren.—2C. xVn Indian orcliard was located on lot 18. 27. Here was a small hamlet, on lot 1(5, with pottery, arrow-heads, and a pick-shaped banner-stone. 28. In the river, at lot 3, is a stone lish-weir in good preservation, with several bays, and formed of bowlders. Since the river has been dammed it has been generally some feet below the surface, but an unu- sual drought gave op- portunity for full ex- amination. There are others on the river, the Indians reserving the right to make them in their treaties. 29. An Indian or- chard and burial-place were located here, one of the few recent sites. On lot 4, west side of Dead Creek, was a hamlet. 30. On lot 8, east side of the same creek, was a hamlet of con- Fig. 6. siderable size, and there are fire-places on the opposite bank of the river. The Van Buren site yields celts, arrows, pestles, and pottery. 31. On high land, on. lot 6, there is a large village site which was stockaded. Arrow-heads, celts, fine clay pipes, pottery, and one copper bead have been recovered. Close by was found a fine copper sj)ear- head of large size. 32. Lot 7 includes at least four distinct village sites in Baldwinsville, south of the river, all of considerable size. On one was found a pentag- onal arrow-head; on another a clay face luted on pottery. Here are burial-places and a great variety of i)rehist()ric relics, including some fine pipes. At one i^oint glass beads have been found. 33. A stockade, inclosing two. acres, stood on a low hill on lot 13, by a
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