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about one-eighth of a mile west of house i, had also encountered part 

 of an old lodge floor, 8 by lo feet, paved in the same manner. Like- 

 wise, A. T. Hill, excavating a lodge about 3 miles south of the present 

 site, encountered two areas on its floor, respectively 3^ and 5 feet 

 square, which were covered with evenly laid slabs. As previously men- 

 tioned, these low-grade jasper slabs occur naturally in the bed of Lost 

 Creek and by their nature almost suggest this type of use. In the 

 course of our own digging many of these slabs were encountered, and 

 while some gave evidence of having been artificially squared we found 

 no others placed together as flooring. 



Cache 3 was a circular pit 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet deep (3 feet 

 below floor line) . It was marked by an abundance of baked clay on the 

 floor line at a depth of 27 to 30 inches, perhaps the result of fires 

 having been built over the cache. A considerable number of flat, thin 

 stones occurred at a depth of 32 inches. A few small end scrapers, 

 broken chert blades, bone artifacts, potsherds, and considerable char- 

 coal, ash, mussel shells, and other debris occurred throughout the pit, 

 which was filled with soft dark mixed soil. There was no evidence of 

 any lining to the cache pit. 



Cache 4 was a cylindrical pit, being 30 inches in diameter and 4 feet 

 deep. It was filled with dark soft earth containing much ash and char- 

 coal. Aside from a broken jasper hoe and some potsherds, it was 

 devoid of artifacts. There was no evidence of any special floor or 

 lining. 



Cache 5 was very similar to cache 4. It, too, was cylindrical in form, 

 being 20 inches in diameter and 4 feet 6 inches deep. Its contents con- 

 sisted of dark soil heavily impregnated with ash, containing no arti- 

 facts other than some flint chips and potsherds. 



Cache 6 was somewhat smaller than the last, being marked by a 

 4-inch layer of pure white ash at floor line and by its greater depth. 

 It measured 18 inches in diameter and was 5 feet deep (from the 

 surface). Six inches from the bottom was a large horizontal stone 

 slab about 19 inches long. Aside from sherds, chips, and bone debris, 

 its dark mixed soil contained no artifacts. 



Cache 7 was completely covered at floor line by a thin jasper slab 

 measuring 11 by 14^ inches. The pit itself was small and somewhat 

 narrower at the mouth than at the bottom, being 40 inches deep and 

 20 inches in greatest diameter. Aside from the covering slab, this pit 

 was typical of all the other pocket caches indicated by unnumbered 

 circles in figure 5, and the photograph (pi. 4, fig. 2) illustrates the type. 

 There was no evidence of any lining to the pit, and its dark mixed soil 

 content was devoid of artifacts. 



