Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-21

There were terra-cotta and lava vases,
seeds, straw, bones of animals, tools
OF slick and Lava, and at last human
skeleton. Nothing of iron or bronze
was found-not even nail or the
trace of one in the many pieces of
wood forming the debris Of the roof.
The absence of metals was complete
and characteristic.
The terra-cotta vases are turned,
and of yellowish color, with thick
sides. some of them having 100 liters
of capacity. They have heavy bor-
der, and just below the neck there are
depressions regularly made prominent,
as if by the ends of the fingers before
the application of heat. In them were
found barley. umbelliferous seeds,
probably corianders and nise-seed,
dwarf peas, and other substances
whose nature could not be determined.
These vases are identically the same
in form, material and size with those
used in Greece in antiquity to preserve
cereals. In many of the rooms heaps
of barley were found piled up along
side the partition walls.
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vases of handsomer color, ornament
ed with circular bands at regular in
tervals, crossed by light vertical lines.
The designs are various, representing
circles or straight lines artistically
mingled. These vases differ in every
way from the vases of antique peoples
preserved in our museums; they could
not possibly be COMPOUNDED with
Grecian, Etruscan or Egyptian ware.
There seem to be in France only two
vases in anywise suggesting them; one
is vase found III the Syrian desert
and deposited in the Louvre; the
other, found in the environs of Autun,
is in the Gaulish Museum of st. Ger
main.
The most interesting and curious of
the discovered vases were kneaded of
fine yellowish earth and ornamented
entirely different from the rest, in a
manner almost artistic, with groups of
points and curves mingled in perfect
taste, sometimes representing gar
lands of leaves and showing the hand
of skillful workman. Large orna-
mented potteries of reddish iron
earth are plentifully found at Thera-
STA. They are sometimes wide porrin-
gers with handle near the edge 9TH
ers are only small and shallow cups.
Lava troughs, massive and followed
out, seem to have been used for water
ing animals, and are to be found
under the soil, as if originally fastened
near a post, some just in the outer
court. some inside the buildings, just
alongside the bones of sheep.
Hand-mllls, made of hemispherical
lava, were also plenty, whose finer sur
faces were much worn by usage.
Lava disks of a round form, with a
hole as large as tinger-tip, were also
found bearing the marks of where a
flexible band had passed through.
These were exactly the same form as
are now used by the weavers of the
Archipelago to stretch their fabric on
the frame.
Weights made of lava were also
found. Stone implements, identical
with the usual run of those things,
were also found; arrow or lance heads
of triangular shape and saws or
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edges, at regular intervals and sizes.
A human skeleton was found
crouching in a corner, with abased
head and legs crossed, but 50 little
care was exercised in removing it that
almost all the bones were lost or de-
stroyed. The position showed that
the individual had been suddenly
squelched by the falling in of the roof.
BY the fragments of bones remaining
the individual was probably one of
middle age and hight, and of the
same chronological characteristics as
the present inhabitants of the Archi-
pelago. Philadelphia Telegraph.
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