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numerous at the site. The occurrence of two jadeite beads has already 

 been noted. On the whole, nonceramic artifacts are more abundant 

 in Lake Yojoa than in Ulua Polychrome sites. 



Site 3 



About one-third of a kilometer north of site 2 we briefly investigated 

 what appears to be a quite different type of mound. To reach it one 

 proceeds through the extremely dense bush past a great number of 

 low, pitted, rock mounds (La Ceiba, site 3, map, fig. 20). Despite 

 its relative proximity to the lake we doubt if we could have found 

 it without the aid of Paco, The mound in question we called the 

 " cut-stone mound ", because of the occurrence there of several large 

 slabs which appeared to have been worked. The main structure is 

 a rectangular platform-mound, 2.80 meters in height, with a north 

 to south length of about 20 meters, and a breadth of approximately 

 10 meters. The walls of this mound rise sharply, and the top, which 

 measures roughly 14 by 6 meters, is rather flat. The south end, which 

 faces the lake, has a more gradual slope, but the north end and east 

 and west sides rise abruptly. This platform-mound is set upon a low 

 circular rise, or mound, which has an estimated diameter of almost 40 

 meters. It was impossible to clear this entire area with the time and 

 men available ; hence these measurements are merely approximations. 



An excavation had been made near the center of the platform- 

 mound which reached down to subsoil, a depth of exactly 2.80 meters. 

 When cleared, the walls of this pit proved to be of brown soil con- 

 taining, especially near the bottom, some potsherds and charcoal. The 

 very bottom of the pit reached sterile yellow clay. No large rocks 

 occurred in the walls of the pit, but we found a few just under the 

 surface elsewhere on the platform. The local man who had dug the 

 pit told us that he had found nothing. To the south, where the 

 platform-mound rises from the low irregular substructure, we en- 

 countered a row of boulders which seemed to form a lower border. 

 Ten meters farther south, still on the sloping substructure, we un- 

 covered a number of large, flat slabs, several of which appeared to 

 have been more or less ground into shape. These were immediately 

 adjacent to an old excavation containing other slightly worked, flat 

 slabs. Our workers told us that four small pots had been found in 

 this pit. Aside from being laid flat, none of these large slabs ap- 

 peared to be in any particular arrangement. Two meters farther 

 south on the outer edge of the substructure, we encountered a row 

 of boulders and smoothed slabs laid end to end just under the surface. 

 These slabs and boulders formed a definite border to the substructure 



