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I chipped and partially ground celt, 2 chipped celts, i polishing stone, 

 I hammerstone, i flat bone awl, i polished bone " needle " with a 

 groove around the butt, and 2 fragments of pottery pipes. Besides the 

 artifacts, many unworked rocks, numerous mussel shells, fishbones, 

 mammal bones, and rodent skulls were found. No traces of charred 

 corn were noted, although the black organic mass already noted near 

 the mouth of the pit may have once been corn. This material has not 

 been analyzed. 



Refuse Heaps 



No refuse heaps have been excavated at this site, although they 

 probably occur, since modern gravediggers have thrown up consider- 

 able amounts of shell and bone in the eastern part of the cemetery. 

 It was of course impossible to excavate further at such places and our 

 trial trenches away from the graves revealed no middens. 



Pottery from House 2 



A considerable amount of pottery was found in this house, for the 

 most part on the old floor level and in the two cache pits. The follow- 

 ing lists indicates the total amount and the main ceramic types re- 

 covered from house 2 : 



Complete pots, 2. 



Restored pots, 2. 



Total number of sherds, 1,126 (rim and handles 78, body 1,048). 



Cord-marked sherds, 407 (rims and handles 7, body 400). 



Rain ware sherds, 702 (rims and handles 71, body 631). 



Incised ware, 13 (rims and handles 0, body 13). 



Sherds with slip, 4 (?). 



In general the ware from this house is of good quality and feels 

 smooth and hard to the touch. The paste in the majority of cases is 

 fine and the ware flaky in texture. The tempering is of fine grit and 

 difficult to determine in most cases, although occasionally coarser 

 river gravel has been used and such sherds are more crumbly than the 

 others. A tempering containing iron pyrites is sometimes used, and the 

 golden sparkle thus given the surface of the ware is attractive."" The 

 ware is hard and for the more part well fired, though occasional sherds 

 with a black interior indicate insufficient heating. 



The prevalent color is a reddish brown, ranging from an orange- 

 buff to an almost black tone. A considerable proportion of the sherds 

 are brick-red. Smoke blackening occurs on the outside of many pieces. 

 The variable colors are due to the degree of firing or smoking and 



"" This may be the gold flake tempering referred to by Gilder, 1907, p. 712. 



