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fill the enclosure with gravel. Excavation sunk to bed rock revealed 

 no human remains, or implements. 



Below the platform under the dike is a series of three ter- 

 races (PI. XXII, A, and fig". 3, Z)). The bottom terrace, nearly 

 buried by rocks from above, supports a second terrace 3^ feet 

 high, 12 feet long, 5^ feet wide, which in turn supports the top. 

 I foot 8 inches high and 14 feet long. \\"\\\\ pick and shove) we 

 laid bare the front wall of the terrace which had been i^^ feet 

 underground and i foot above. It ran along for 9^ feet, then 

 took a right-angle turn and extended out for 51/ feet. We 

 removed the sand inside the wall down to 3 feet without finding 

 anything of interest. We next dug along the face of the dike 

 which forms the north side of the other two terraces of the series, 

 and extended from this trench into the terraces themselves. On 

 a level with the surface of the top terrace, 5 feet back from the 

 front wall and 5^2 feet from the cliff we found a tooth that had 

 belonged to an adult, and then a skull face up. Near at hand were 

 fragments of other bones. There was a stone to the east of the 

 skull and a small stone resting on top of it. On the same contour 

 as the terraces just described and under the north dike is an inter- 

 esting series of five terraces (PI. XXII, B, and fig. 3, E) which 

 measure as follows : 



Terrace Length of front wall Height Width of terrace 



Feet Feet Feet 



Lowest 12 2 5 



Second 9^ i-| 5 



Middle 15 4 7 



Fourth -. 18 6 3 



Top II 2 71 



Each terrace supports the one above it. The fourth is the 

 largest of the series, and on it has been built the top terrace. 



We recovered the bones of an adult female and a child of 

 four years of age within the space of the top terrace but also deep 

 enough to have been in the fourth terrace. The skull of the 

 woman was missing, but the jawbone in good preservation lay 

 right side up 17 inches below the surface and 36 from the front 



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