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Bird states that the decorated sherds came from the upper levels 

 and that all the sherds from the lowest level were plain. The fore- 

 going anlysis of the collection bears out, in the main, his own observa- 

 tions made at the site. Some decorated ware does come from below 

 the 18-inch level, but it is markedly more abundant above than below 

 this line. Next to the nature of the urn burials, this is apparently 

 the most significant result of the excavations at this site. 



Site 2 



This concentration of cultural detritus, apparently part of the same 

 general deposit, is located 400 feet west of site i. Guided by 

 Mr. Waterhouse, we visited the site the same day we examined site i. 

 The deposit is made up of broken pottery, shells, fish remains, etc. 

 Fragments of human bone were noted, but no complete urns or burials 

 were encountered by either party. Bird dug a cross trench here 

 (trench 2) and also a test pit. There are no diagrams of these ex- 

 cavations. This trench apparently reached a depth of between 4 and 

 5 feet, the upper 18 inches or so consisting of somewhat intermixed 

 wind-blown sand, the next 3 feet of black occupational debris, and 

 below this the unmixed beach sand. Bird states that potsherds were 

 very abundant, all being plain, unpainted ware, usually red but some- 

 times black at the center with red surfaces. He also observes that the 

 sherds in the upper refuse had ornamented knobs and legs with some 

 raised decoration, whereas the sherds from the lowest level lacked 

 decoration. 



As at site i, the material from this site that was saved is in large 

 part allocated as to depth. The largest amount of material, however, 

 comes from the surface down to a depth of 20 inches, the material 

 preserved from below this depth being almost negligible. Probably 

 the collection saved was definitely selected to show the more complex 

 pieces. From the surface down to 20 inches come 20 fragments of 

 hard, well-polished bowls or jars, all more or less smoke-blackened. 

 A few have loop handles, and several are decorated with designs 

 made in relief or by incision. Some 25 sherds come from small to 

 medium, plain jars with constricted necks and low to medium flaring 

 rims. One or two have straight necks, and one open bowl has concave 

 vertical walls and a rounded bottom. Another group of highly polished, 

 thin, brown sherds come from a vessel with a concave " dimple " in the 

 bottom. One solid, vertical loop handle, and several broad loop handles 

 decorated with raised and sometimes notched ridges, are present. 

 There are several decorated feet, two of which are hemispherical with 



