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Home My WebLink AboutPE-15 PE 15 NEW YORK STATE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM For Office Use Only--Site Identifier Inventory of Southold Project'Identifier T~ks Your Name ~w~ ~ ~u~h~ld/~ty f~r the Address O~,o~,~e~ of L.T. Antiquities %~"~lli-~n Road. Southold Zip ],.I.. N.Y. 11991 Phone(~6) D~te September 1986 Organization (if any) 1. Site Identifier(s) 2. County Suffolk 3. Present Owner Address Southold Town Community Development Office Indian Neck Orchard of the Indians ~ One of following: City Township S~uthol~ Incorporated Village Unincorporated Village or Hamlet P~eonie zip 4. Site Description (check all appropriate categories): Site __Stray find __Pictograph Burial Surface evidence Material below plow zone __Single component Location Under cultivation Pastureland ~Upland __Cave/Rockshelter Quarry Shell midden Camp Buried evidence Evidence of features __Multicomponent Never cultivated Woodland __Workshop Mound Village Material in plow zone Intact occupation floo~ Stratified Soil Drainage: excellent good__ fair Slope: flat __gentle __moderate steep Distance to nearest water from site-~approx.) Elevation: low Previously cultivated __Floodplain __Sustaining erosion poor adjacent 5. Site Investigation (append additional sheets, if necessary): Surface date(s) 1924 Site Map (Submit with form*) x__Collection at NuSeum of the American Indian Subsurface--date(s) Testing: shovel__coring__other no. of units ) unit size '(Submit plan of units with form*) Excavation: unit size 6' x 8' no. of units (Submit plan of units with form*) * Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible one Investigator ~r. John ~essen~r ~n 192~ Page 2 Manuscript or published report(s) (reference fully): R~adin~s in Lon~ Island Archeolo~ and Ethnohistor~, Suffolk County A~cheological Assoc. 1977. Vol Present repository of materials Museum of the American Indian Component(s) (cultural affiliation/dates): 7 List of material remains (be as specific as possible in identifying object and material): o If historic materials site form. are evident, check here and fill out historic Map References: Map or maps showing exact location and extent of site must accompany this form and must be identi~ie~ by source and date. Keep this submission to if possible. USGS 7% Minute Series Quad. Name N:¥.R_ For Office Use Only__UTM Coordinates Photography (optional for environmental impact survey): Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print(s) showing the current state of the site. Provide a label for the print(s) on a separate sheet. .~E ,'N ERM ITAQE). PECONIC Ho6r N~C~ ~f LITTLE j:)E£OIqlC IBAY NECk< [~AY E'~" "Summer cZ' History" ,;ap Section s Peconic CACHE OF BLADES FROM LONG ISLAND Fos'r~a FI. S*vn.t.~ It Js well known to have been the custom ot Indians rd hide, or cache, in the ground or the snow, or beneath a cairn, for security until needed, stores of surplus provisions, as well as such imple- ments and other articles as were not immediately required or were difficult to transport. Some- times caches of impIcment~ ~vere made evidently for religious reasons, if one may iudge by the man- ner of their disposal and by the fact that often the objects are beautifully chipped and bear no indica- tion of ever having been put to use. Many of the buried stores of perishable ma~ rerials, such as food, having been forgotten or for some other reason were never recovered by their owners, soon practically disappeared; but others, consisting of objects made of such almost inde- structible materials as stone, bone, copper and shell, are occasionall), unearthed in the old Indian country.. Within the limits of Long Island, New York, two long-forgotten caches of stone implements have been discovered. In the spring of t86t, William Bro~yer, while plowing a field bordering th; cr~-k .fl_:~},.mg to Rockaway Landing, near Rockvillc Centev: discovered a cache of two copper axes and two.ot stone, surrounded by. a hundred chtrpeu blades of black chert set upright in a circle. By reason of the position of these objects, the cache was probably a ceremonial one, not intended to be recovered. Two examples from this cache are shown in fig. x7. The second Long Island cache of stone imple- ments was found b~- Mr. John Messenger at In~di_~n___Neck~ PSc_%n.% ~i9. JH!7'_ Lg_x'J, and presented by him to the Museum, as mentioned ~n a brief note in [ndian .¥0rt/for January, tSu_5. The position of the implements when uncovered was in no sense peculiar; indeed they' were scattered throughout: an area of six by eight feet. ¥.'hen buried they probably were close together, bur had been dis- turbed by plowing. This cache consisted of one hundred and fifty-one specimens of brown and black chert, of which one hundred and nine are leaf-shape blades with straight base, fairly uniform in shape but differing in size. The smallest is two and a half inches in length by two inches in maximum width, while the largest is seven and a quarter inches long by three and five-eighths inches xvide. The remainder consists of forty-one flakes of varying shapes and sizes, from an inch and a half to four inches in length, and an inch to two and a half inches in width. The exceptional implement from the deposit is a small stemmed arrowpoint, seven-eighths by three-quarters of an inch. This specimen, together with others from the cache, are illustrated in fig. ~8. Fro. rT.--Blades from a cache at Rockaway Landiug near Rock~i~le Comer, Long Island, in ~S63 Long Island by Mr. John blessenger ia xg~4 --- 65 Reprinted from bluseum of the American Indian: tleye Foundation, INDIMq NOTES AND b~ONOGP~{PHS, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1926.