The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
4 PREHISTORIC TRAGEDY
Two Nth FLINT WEAPONS.

.-,w Head st.n in the Skull OF
me =. Tssm When Mr.. chenowetn
one I'm at Inwood-A 5aoy
Buried Near By.
rro,, the NetC York sun.
Alexander c. Cheno~e- o. we a,e aaorat
AleA -la-i.+ Of Inwood, has just discovered
.renlTJ 20 billock near the corner oil IN
II the - and Kingsbridge road some
WOOD 80 ;n,sresting relics of the men OF
ne" a-iu -,,-;4.s Ever since the Visit oil
oysoAe 0 80 of Harvard early IN the
froi' NJ Cbenoweth has dug indus
.-,a,, " near the spot where ne e1caV0u 70
H. hcres and stones last spring ne
lnln' ,,non a large additional quantity OF
calio - leads. Indian pottery, shells OF
aFro" .aocies and clumsy stone impie-
mentS. four DAVIS ago however.
NoI un' H. any discoveries OF equal L.
plu 10 nc With his discoveries OF last april.
porl taaarthad a skeleton IN half-sit-
he!l no on the northeast side OF hlllock.
tlns he forehead, about one men above
zee he found sharF-polhteu ninU
W head imbedded. Inc AFRO" head Is
about two inches 10 o1O t;I =; a.
ee1',rtbs Of its length was ourrleu III Ihe
lout tIs ;.bio the skull. The skeleton was
sahu So feet six inches tall and had the
aoou' . =, Of a woman's. The lorna
cndi a. - he lower Jaw and shape OF the
W. law inst below the nose were PLAINLY
upper )" peIf-grown wisdom teeth gave
Iuuian Mr.. Chenoweth says, that the
e,,aIo+on belonged TO girl OF Is or ~ years.
IT, skeleton Law some four feet penealn tne
Is n IL
snrfaoe ina mixture OF deC0nlposeu sal Llu
eul and yellow sand. The head was
stor .1.rou,n with the thick roots Of rotted
os 1. sS2,,r,7 about two feet in diameter.
oaA So removing the bones from their
.9dstore sepulchre Mr.. Chenoweth dug
diractIv eastward from tie stump. Two
l QIae f2om the SPOT where he found the
l Lei with the arrow head in its fore
"a he discovered another womans skele-
.on with half-grown wisdom teeth. 1t lay
DOT on its back, with its face to the SOUTH
ward In the right temple was Jagged
hole. an inch and a half long from whica
dronned a heavy flint spear head as MIR.
Cbsnoweth raised the bones. The skull was
oISo fractured little above the base.
Abont two feet to the south of the space
ba+grosn the skull of the one skeleton and
The heels of the other Mr.. Chenoweth laid
Sore the bones of a small child. The little
laws especially under the nose, had the
same marked Indian characteristics as the
laws of the ether two skulls. Mr. Cheno-
weth is verv triumphant over his enemies
in Tnwood who have persistenly accused
him of upsetting the bones of revolution
arv first families and negroes.
His systematic trenching along the east,
west and south sides of the hillock has been
rewarded by the discovery of great
quantity of Indian pottery. He has at
least bushel of finely marked fragments
of clay vessels, and has already put to-
gether considerable portions of twelve pots.
One the vessels, half restored, VIII have,
when finished, diameter of twenty inches
and depth of thirty. 1t is marked with
the herring bone pattern, done with stick.
Another pot, somewhat smaller, is simply
pitted-that is, adorned with tiny punctures
from some sharp Instrument. Stlll another
II vessel is as smooth as q modern tile. A new
sUye of pottery taken from the hillock very
recently is marked with unusual elaboration
and exactness. The pattern is rectangular.
The boundary lines are clean-cuu. UNIV aver
ing lncsions Diagonal narrow belts, Or
namented with little stars, pass across the
rectangles from the corners. The color of
the Cay is a reddish bronze. and the surface
is smoother and harder than the surface of
any other pottery discovered by Mr.. Cheno-
weth
The most remarkable of the stones re-
Gently taken from the hillock is the clumsily
fashioned stone-head of Ratchet or an axe.
The form Of the head is tolera5ly perfect,
although the edge has been clipped off.
From the point where the helve of modern
Ratchet joins the steel head the stone head
is encirced by two deep grooves, IN which
presumably were bound the two split sec
tons of the head of the helve. Near the
axe or Ratchet head, which lay few inches
beneath the surface mold, Mr.. Chenoweth
found nine or ten arrow heads of quartz,
flint and trap. A lot of oyster, mussel and
scallop shells, which lay in the same surface
soil, belonged, according to Prof Martin of
New York University, to shell fish of q
now extinct species.
Mr.. Chenoweth's general explorations of
tie neighborhood had an unexpected result
few weeks ago. On the bank of the Har-
lem, Just OPP osite Fordham Heights, he
noticed circular line of rocks on the crest
OF little knoll. In the soil, at the base of
tne rocks, there we're bits of brick and tile
Of Old Dutch style. He dug few holes in
the middle of the plot surrounded by the
rGcAS, and struck a rotted piece of a poles
ABOUT ten inches in diameter and about
tnFee feet long. At the foot Of it Law a
penny with the inscription, "Georgius IL.
l.56 Mr.. Chenoweth burrowed into the
history OF the country around Fordham
heights, and decided that the three-foot
plec9 Of wood was the remains of a flag.
sOiu mat had once stood on fort on the
crest of the knoll