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Chairman Dorothy Good Dwight Shipley Ernest Good Jack Hooks Marylyn Harness David Kuhn Martha Otto Gilbert Dilley SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHER Joy Jones Earl Townsend Len Weidner Robert Hill TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITOR'S PAGE The Eschbaugh Cache 5 Despite the fact that this is the time of An Historic Contact Iron Trade Axe from the Huron Valley 7 the year when most people don't like to think about filling out forms, our readers Ohio Pipe Chronology Chart 8 will find a questionnaire inserted in this Additional Lithic Artifacts from Noble County, Ohio 10 issue of the Ohio Archaeologist. It is our sincere desire to not be out of touch The McLeod Birdstone 12 with our more than 2,200 members and Pebble Pendants 13 the answers provided by this question­ naire can give the officers of our A Pedigreed Axe 14 Society, and especially the Editor, A Few Things From Around The House 15 guidelines and suggestions which will have an affect on both the Society and To Restore Or Not To Restore 15 the Ohio Archaeologist. An Indented Gorget and An Adena Blade 16 For a comprehensive cross-section of A Fort Ancient Necklace 17 membership likes and dislikes, we need as large a response as possible. Even Hart Beaver Effigy Boatstone 19 if you have no particular criticism or The Hunzicker Site 22 suggestion and are more or less satis­ fied with things as they are, we would The Putnam-Metz Correspondence On Mound Explorations In Ohio 24 appreciate knowing of your satisfaction. Ohio Surface Finds 29 We occasionally hear comments, both favorable and unfavorable, about meet­ Two Carved Stone Objects 30 ings, the Ohio Archaeologist, chapters Never Stop Looking 30 etc. and we sincerely desire to address any problems which a concensus of Fine Celts 31 opinion might make us aware of. Letter To Editor 31 So, please take five minutes of time to go over the questions on the form, Knife Or Preform 32 check your answers or opinions, make An Archaic Bell Pestle 32 criticisms, pass on comment, either good or bad, and tell us of your prefer­ A Chlorite Tubular Bannerstone 33 ences. Return the questionnaire to 199 Surface Finds From The Spring of 1979 33 Converse Drive, Plain City, Ohio 43064. Twin Adena Gorgets 34 You can do a distinct service to your Society and your thoughts may have a ASO Exhibit Winners—1981 35 far reaching effect in the future direc­ Danish Flint 35 tion of the Archaeological Society of Ohio. Robert N. Converse Editor. FRONT COVER Fine flint from the Collection of John Baldwin, West Notice Olive, Mich. Leonard Petrowski, an advanced stu­ dent in anthropology, is seeking car- bon-14 dates for Ohio sites. If you have had any such material dated and have not had it published, he would appreci­ ate hearing from you. The address is — Leonard Petrowski Room 208 Lord Hall Department of Anthropology Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 mwfssm www MfMtltf 'f-rMII ttMtHMff/Mfl! IHMHM /% / (Converse) The 201 blade Eschbaugh cache. Stemmed lanceolate point is in the top row, 9th from left. •n;9tMi|Mtf The Eschbaugh Cache By Robert N. Converse, Plain City, Ohio On September 20, 1980, one of the more importantly, the inclusion of one periods. The Eschbaugh discovery most remarkable caches ever discov­ specimen which is clearly a stemmed would tend to prove that this ubiquitous ered in Ohio was found in Reno, Wash­ lanceolate point. Had these points been custom had its roots in the Piano period. ington County, by William Eschbaugh. found on a Piano site it would be con­ Nor can there be much speculation that Uncovered while excavating a base­ sidered nothing unusual except for their such practices have religious or life- ment for his home, Mr. Eschbaugh rather large size. They conform in every after-death implications. In addition, it found this 201 piece cache 5/2 feet respect to lanceolate and stemmed may well refute the commonly held below the natural surface of the ground. lanceolate types found at such sites as theory that, at least in this case, caches The flint blades had been placed in a Sawmill and Stringtown. were buried with the idea of later re­ pile about two feet in diameter at one In several respects the Eschbaugh trieval by the burier. end of what apparently was a pit three cache is one of the most revealing ever The 201 blades are all made of Upper feet long. A liberal coating of red ochre to come to light in Ohio and provides Mercer black flint, probably quarried covered the blades and colored the soil new insights into the Piano tradition. It from the deposits up river from Wash­ with which the pit had been filled. A proves with little doubt that the custom ington County in Muskingum, Coshoc­ lump of hematite from which the red of burying a large number of flint arti­ ton and Tuscarawas Counties. For Piano ochre was rubbed was the only other facts in a cache was established at least pieces these are on the large, but object in the pit. What sets this cache by late Paleo times. It also shows that uniform, size. The longest blade meas­ apart from other caches found in Ohio the symbolic use of red ochre, either in ures 6 inches and the stemmed point is is the fact that it is the first known such powder form or actually painted on the 5)4 inches. A heavy incrustation of red deposit assignable to the Piano period. artifacts, was in practice at this time.