Archeologic investigations in James and Potomac valleys / by Gerard Fowke.

  • Gerard Fowke
Date:
1894
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Credit: Archeologic investigations in James and Potomac valleys / by Gerard Fowke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KCHEOLOGY] FOWKE J REMAINS IN WARREN COUNTY 61 Royal, near the college building, and 2 others were situated on the point opposite the junction of the two Happy creeks. Seven miles above Front Eoyal, on the farm of Captain Simpson, opposite Gooney run, were 4 cairns, one of them 20 by 20 feet, the others much smaller. There were several cairns on the farm of Dr Haynie, 9 miles below Front Royal j many relics, mainly arrowpoints and spearheads, are found in the bottom lands near by. Kerclieval mentions the location of an Indian town at this point. Two mounds were opened near Water Lick ; in oue of them were found a stone hatchet and part of a gun barrel. O11 the Jenkins farm, near Buckton, is a mound 28 feet in diameter and 2 feet high; it has been partially opened without results. On the Catlett, place, adjoining the above, were 4 mounds, of which one has been entirely destroyed. The largest was 20 feet in diameter and 30 inches high. It covered 2 graves, about 3 feet apart, extending a few inches into the tenacious clay subsoil and tilled with large stones which had settled in from the mound. One was nearly 6 feet long and about 20 inches wide; the other was circular, 3^ feet in diameter. No traces of bone remained in either. A foot from the top of the mound were the fragmentary bones of 2 adults and a child of 12 or 14 years, i much broken and decayed but in proper order ; they had been interred in a shallow hole made by the removal of the stones, which were then thrown back on them. The 2 other mounds were much smaller; under I each was a circular grave 3|- feet in diameter, extending a few inches i into the subsoil. No bones or art products were found in either. A mound at the highest point on the road leading through Cullers 1 gap to Seven Fountains in Fort valley, if not due to natural causes, is only a trail mark, as this pass was much traversed by the Indians. The Indian trail through Chester gap divided at Front Royal, one branch joining the main trail up the valley, a few miles north of Win- 1 Chester,1 the other following the Shenandoah. The two main streets of the town are laid out along the line of these trails; this explains the sharp angle at which they separate. Tradition also locates the Senedo Indians at the junction of the two branches of the Shenandoah and along Happy creek. CLARKE COUNTY. VICINITY OF BERRY VILLE. Five miles south of Berryville, on the farm of S. M. Taylor, at the end of a low ridge, bounded by the river and a small creek, are abund¬ ant surface indications of an aboriginal settlement. Four folded skeletons were found not more than a foot below the sur¬ face, one on the right side, with head toward the east; the position of