Ron and Marsha Fowler's Collection
The only drill I’ve found and it is completely intact.  It is somewhat 
fragile due to weathering (leaching) that is typical of old quartzite 
artifacts in this area.  I presume it to be quite old as it appears to be 
a Dalton base. 
CONTEXT:   The next 5 items come from a rather large “village” 
site of about 5 acres.  Since the new growth of the last timber 
clear-cut  replant is about 7 years old, the only significant 
collection opportunities are on the access road that traverses 
the center of this site.  The first 4 items were “excavated” 
from a 50 foot stretch of the roadbed at depths up to 4 feet. 
This is many times deeper than the typical maximum artifact 
depth (original) of about 10 inches for this type of site. 
These items were deposited by repair of a deep road 
washout (probably during the major flooding of 1929) as 
evidenced by the mix of  buried vegetation, broken glass, 
old nails, and pieces of fence wire at the same depth as the 
artifacts.  The fifth item was a surface find on the same road segment.
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