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- ;M(]|.iirj ill iiiiiii ilic curve in iIh' i'lilI, with 



site of Structure B at rii^ht. 



where it cur\es sharply to the cast, its southerly coinse 

 stopped by fenced-in lots of generous size (with 

 modern houses built on thcni) that slope down to 

 Potomac Creek. After the highway makes its turn, 

 several dri\-eways extend honi it toward the creek. 

 One of these driveways, oljviously more ancient 

 than the others, leaves the highway about 200 feet 

 cast of the clump of trees, cutting deeply through 

 high sloping banks, where vestiges of a stone wall 

 crop out from its western boundary (fig. 22), and 

 endinc abruptly at the water's edge. Highway 621 

 continues to a dead citd near the confluence of creek 

 and river. 



Some 200 feet west of the turn in the highway 

 around the clump of trees, is a deep gully (or "gutt" 

 in 17th-century terminology) that extends northward 

 from Potomac Creek almost as far as the intersecting 

 road that passes the site of the Indian village. This 

 gully is overgrown with trees and brush, and it forms 

 a natural barrier th.it di\ides the lower portion of the 



]joint into two parts. A few well-spaced modern 

 houses fringe the shores of the point, while the flat 

 land behind the houses is given over almost entirely 

 to culti\ation. 



Since the two colonial land surveys were not drawn 

 to scale, some confusion arose in 1954 as to their 

 orientation to the sur\i\ing topographic features. 

 Howe\er, the perimeter measurements given on the 

 lt)91 plat make it clear that the town was laid out in 

 the southeastern section of the point, and that the 

 ■■gutt"' so indicated on the plat is the tree-lined 

 gully west of the turn in the highway. 



Bordering the clump of trees at this turn coukl 

 be seen in 1954 a short outcropping of brick masonry. 

 A few yards to the north, on the opposite side of the 

 road, erumiiled iiits of sandstone, both red and gray, 

 were concentrated in the ditch cut by a highway 

 grader. In the fields at either side of the highway, 

 plow furrows disclosed a consideral^le quantity of 

 brick chips, IHih-centiuy ceramics, and t;lass sherds. 



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