Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-25
PREHISTORIC LEXINGTON.

EDITOR Relics Of the pre- |
historic people or mound builders. who inhab-
tied Missouri before our modern Indians occu-
pied it as their hunting grounds, have been found
and published In about twenty different counties
of Missouri, bat Lafayette county has not
received her share of celebrity in this line.
Two or the Intelligencer Office boys, Frank
Lamborn and Ethan Allen, Jr., have specimens
OF Mint arrow-heads and other curious things
which they showed to Prof. Reid, of the Mis-
souri, Historical Company. and he listed and
named them thus.
Ethan's list: l hint drill. 3A inches lsng-
was used by the ancient people to drill their
soapstons and pipestone pipes; also to make
holes in other trinkets SO as to string them.
4 flint srrsw-headso OF different sizes, shapes and
colors. ! fesher-an implement made Of green
stone, and which was used as q hand-wedge or
peeler in the process Of SHINING animals. then
as = lesher and rubber in preparing the skins
SO they would be soft and pliabls. This tool
weighs just q pound. 1t was also used to peel
bark irem trees.
Franks list consists of Is arrow and javelin
heads, varying from TX to 5 inches in length.
Five implements which archDologists call
shovels; these range from 81 to OK inches long;
| l 1esher; l stone AKA very beautiful specimen,
made Of kind OF rock called syenite, q species
of granite.
Last Monday evening the boys went with Prof.
Reid out to . Place they Call ''Indlsn Hill,''
east of the old Masonic College. and there they
found great qualities of flint chips, broken ar
rsw-heads, fragments of ancient pottery with
Jour different styles Of Recommendation represent.
ed on different pieces, and lastly q part of a tiny
copper AK. This last is supposed to have been
the emblem of authority, kept or wsrn by the
chief. The boys say they used to find pockets
full of arrew-heads and such things there. The
abundance of nint chips, broken pottery, etc.
on the ground Is said to show that Q village wa.
located there, and . msnufactery Of arrow
heads, flint knives, shovels. stone axes and
pottery must have been kept there for some
time.
Col. John Reid also submitted for examina.
ton and name n round stone weighing ONT
pound and seven and one-fourth ounses, which
looked more like a petrined Usage orange thar
anything else. But the professor says 1t il not
pstrifaction at all. but 10 made from a hint.
kind of rock called hornstone, anu was used b,
the Mound uild people IS q sort of psstle t,
work IN q ssucerllke cavity in another piece o
hard stone which served IA u mortar. Wit
this rude apparatus they ground or mashed thei
: parched corn and roasted acorns; they also use,
it to pulvsrize red and yellow keel to make war
paint, and to grind up mica to mix in thei
pottery. We learn that Mr.. George Wilsel
likewise has some of these ancient relics. an,
. Mr.. Witilers. Mr.. Burden and others; an,
ancient mounds are reported in halt Is dozsl
. places In the county.
Thus 1t appears that Lafayette county Is rio
in archaeological remains. which have ncve
8 been made known to the scientific world
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