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levels. A series of stone artifacts was obtained in the deeper part of 

 the tests. They consisted of the very characteristic decomposed flint 

 of the Ai^chaic. Several burned rock areas were noted, but no pits 

 were found. The site, though not rich, was interesting in that there 

 was much less intrusion from above, with the close mixing of time 

 periods that makes some of the larger, more productive sites so 

 confusing. 



Beginning November 19, the remaining time was devoted to work 

 on two mound sites. Trenched previously, they were 9QU1, and 

 9QU5, south of Georgetown, Ga., in Quitman County. 



9QU1, Moore's "Mounds near Georgetown, Quitman County, 

 Georgia" (Mounds of Lower Chattahoochee and Lower Flint Rivers, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 2d ser. vol. 13, pt. 3, pp. 426-456, 

 448), locally called the "Gary's Fishpond Mound" or the "Gary's 

 Fishpond Site," consists of extensive village remains and a large low 

 mound, now almost completely plowed down and carried away. The 

 site was tested in the spring of 1960 by digging a T-trench along the 

 east margin of the mound, and seven 10-x-lO-foot trenches in the 

 adjacent village areas. Although actually only the roots of the 

 mound are left, it appeared desirable to attempt to determine more 

 exactly the period of its building. Since the outwash apron of the 

 mound was found to be intact, it seemed the site offered an oppor- 

 tunity for getting direct separation of mound, mound fill, and pre- 

 mound periods, with the additional prospect of locating separate pits 

 or features that would give individual "pure" samples. 



The original gi-id was reset and a larger area in the western half of 

 the mound remnants was stripped, revealing the roots of a circular 

 mound faced with clay. It probably was originally about 200 feet in 

 circumference at the base. A section trench cut through the western 

 margin revealed that the clay facing had been carefully built up at 

 a steep angle. The actual base of the mound was about 4 feet below 

 the present surface in this area. A palisade of spaced large-diameter 

 posts followed just outside the curve of this clay wall, but the posts 

 did not appear to have been set into the wall. The indications were 

 of some sort of a clay-faced "caracol" type mound. Additional 

 bedding lines outside the circular periphery indicated a possibility 

 that some kind of overlying rectangular mound had been built on the 

 core of the original circular mound. An area 20-X-20 feet was ex- 

 cavated in mottled fill in the calculated center of the circular mound 

 revealing numbers of post holes in interrupted alignments, running 

 NW.-SE. and NE.-SW., though no clearly defined structure could 

 be made out. Because of increasing inclemency of the weather the 

 planned excavation of this center pit down into the submound could 

 not be completed in the available time and the site was closed down. 



