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Adze blade fragment Original catalogue description: " "Ground celt - sawed but not completely finished on one face. Converging sides - especially on one side. Bevelled but especially one side. Poll end unfinished or chipped secondarily with wear polish overlay. Rectanguloid X-S." Original catalogue association: "On beach in front of depressions" Original catalogue remarks: "Very sharp edge resharpened since faces finished. Plate VI"
Adze blade fragment Artifact has accompanying paper which states: "Possibly ? : 45IS40/1 No. had rubbed off" Original catalogue description: "Ground slate projectile point. Straight-sided traingular outline with thick straight base, stem is parallel sides and fluted in center; edges are bibevelled forming a lensatic X-S." Original catalogue association: "on beach in front of depressions." Original catalogue remarks: "Flutes extend slightly further up than stem; Photo plate V"
Hammerstone. Original catalogue description: "Elongate ovoid water-rolled stone, plano-convex x-section. Both extreme ends apparently struck rather hard. (one end has a crude cone of percussion running from tip down one side." Original catalogue association: "Found while bulldozing SE portion of mound"
Adze blade. Original catalogue description: "Poll end serpentine celt. Edges probably sawed but now so rounded into elliptical x-section so as to be indeterminable. Edges curve inward near poll also dorso - ventral beveling to form wide, sharp screw driver like edge over all grinding." Original catalogue association: "Found while bulldozing SE portion of mound"
Adze blade. Original catalogue description: "Serpentine celt blade end . Sawed edges parallel. Faces near edges slightly bevelled. Asymetrical bi-bevelled (one side more than other) excurvate bit. Pollished end broken. Elliptical x-section overall grinding." Original catalogue association: "Found while bulldozing SE portion of mound"
Bone chisel. Original catalogue description: "Ground mammal bone point. Elliptical X-S with dorso-ventral beveling mostly on one side near tip to form spatulate screwdriver like tip. Base thinned by grinding and unilaterally broken off at right angles to long axis." Original catalogue association: "0.8' N of N wall 0.5' W of W wall"
Chipped stone tool. Original catalogue description: "Chopper (?) Rounded base expanding slightly to shoulder where broadly expands to excurving blade . Entire margin percussion chipped from both sides. Least amount of retouching on blade - possibly hafted scraper (?)" Original catalogue association: "In ashy shell under peat near N. end of trench"
Hammerstone. Original catalogue description: "Hammerstone. Not used on extreme points. Used mostly on one wide long face and opposing top angle of triangular outline forming two small contiguous picked areas." Original catalogue association: "W face of trench on top of plat to 5' N of S face"
Modified stone. Spheroid shaped stone. Original catalogue description: "Spheroid stone. Rough surface - especially so on over 2/3 of surface where looks as is pecked into shape." Original catalogue association: "Found will bulldozing SE portion of mound"
Ground stone, abrader. Original catalogue description: "Sandstone whetstone (?) two contiguous faces forming abrupt angle to each other except at one end where angle has been ground to smooth curve." Original catalogue association: "Near SE corner of trench"