Polished and Ground Stone Objects
Few objects of polished stone were found. One large celt ([Fig. 12], I) is from the surface. It is symmetrically ovate, 17.5 cm. long, 7.5 cm. wide, and 3.8 cm. thick. It shows pecking marks on the faces, but is well ground at the bit and along the edges. A triangular hard sandstone pebble, 7.5 × 7 × 3.3 cm., has round pits, 3 cm. in diameter, on each face, ([Fig. 12], E). There are smooth depressions on two edges. A large pitted mortar stone is of ferruginous sandstone, 22 × 16 cm. One face has an oval depression, 13 × 12 cm., in the center of which, and on the opposite face, are deep hemispherical pits, 3.5 cm. in diameter.
An oval-shaped hammerstone ([Fig. 12], J) of tan chert is smoothed on two faces, roughened by pecking around all edges. A whetstone of brown sandstone ([Fig. 12], F) has one deep and two shallow grooves on one face, two grooves on the opposite.
A rectangular flat tablet of mottled brown slate ([Fig. 12], A) was found during the burial excavations but not in direct association. It is 6 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide, and 3.5 mm. thick. The faces are polished and the edges ground smooth with rounded corners, but there are no decorations or perforations.
A bead of gray and brown banded slate ([Fig. 12], B) was found on the surface of Hill 1. It is pear-shaped, 9 mm. long, 12 mm. wide, counter-drilled and highly polished. A small perforated sandstone concretion ([Fig. 12], D) may have been used as a bead, but the perforation seems to be natural, and the surfaces are not modified.
An oval, reddish claystone concretion was found on the surface. It is 12 × 6.5 cm., and 2.7 cm. thick. The hard cortex had been removed, exposing the soft ocher, which was a probable source of paint.