Identifier: ohioarchologic30ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ed habitation. Brokenpottery, animal bones of many kinds, and other general indica-tions show a more or less permanent habitation. This work-shop has been under cultivation many years and the small deli-cate knives would naturally get broken, but a careful searchby our survey gave us more than one hundred perfect cores andscores of blank cores ready for flaking, as well as many hun-dreds of perfect knives. The industry at this site was not con-fined to the making of cores and knives, but the making of bladesof the round and square base type was much in evidence, asmore than a hundred broken blades of each type were found.Occasionally a finished arrow-point was found on the site,several of which were made of a dark to black flint, the spawlsof which are seldom found in the shop site, indicating that per-haps these specimens were lost by hunters or received in ex-change. In one of the workshops, my assistant, Mr. Shetrone, founda large piece of hyaline quartz that no doubt came from the
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(142) Flint Ridge. 143 region of the blacksmith shop. From time to time the old vil-lage sites have shown the use of rock crystal in making arrow-points, and objects of rock crystal have been found in many ofthe mounds of the Hopewell culture. A large piece of rockcrystal weighing between three and four pounds was found inthe Paint Creek Valley and is now on exhibition in the museum.Mr. John Wilson found on his farm in Pickaway County a largepiece of rock crystal weighing between twenty and thirty pounds,and it would not be surprising if in future years when the flintwill likely be quarried for the silica, it will be conclusivelyshown that the home of the rock crystal found throughout Ohiois at Flint Ridge. DISTRIBUTION. The wide distribution over Ohio of objects made of flintis quite apparent to the student of archaeology who has collectedartifacts from the ancient villages, and naturally the distribu-tion of the flint over the state would be attended with problemsof interest as to t

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