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overlain with soils washed down from the hillside to the east. The 

 overburden attains a thickness of about 2 feet along the deeply cut 

 creek bank, but farther back artifacts are sometimes found on the 

 tilled present surface. It is possible that the old village level, sloping 

 upward along the foot of the hills, has been partially laid bare along 

 its fringes by renewed erosion subsequent to the deposition that buried 

 most of the ancient living surface. Pits, apparently similar to those 

 at the Renner site, occur here, but nothing suggestive of post molds, 

 hearths, or house pits has been reported. Lumps of burnt clay and 

 quantities of animal refuse, especially deer bones, are present ; maize, 

 beans, or squash have not been encountered. 



From several brief examinations of the Trowbridge collection it 

 is evident that grit-tempered wares with plain, rocker-roughened, 

 rouletted (rare), and cord-roughened surfaces predominate. A large 

 jar, partly restored, is of the amphora type represented, in form, by 

 figure 4, j, and plate 4. Other shapes are not known to me, though 

 miniatures occur. Simple dentate and compound stamp impressions 

 are present, probably in greater proportion than at Renner's, and 

 embossed nodes, either alone or with cord-wrapped stick or stamp 

 impressions above, are found on a number of rimsherds. In form and 

 decorative treatment rims run the gamut of types represented at 

 Renner's, though I have the impression that cross-hatched rims are 

 rather less common, relatively speaking. Body ornamentation includ- 

 ed the use of alternate plain and stamped zones separated by incised 

 lines or grooves. The Trowbridge material includes many, perhaps 

 most, of the pottery elements described for the Renner site, and careful 

 study would doubtless reveal others not recorded at the latter. It 

 is my feeling that a thorough analysis would show noteworthy dissim- 

 ilarities as regards the relative importance of certain elements at these 

 two sites, but in how far these probable differences reflect individual, 

 familial, or village styles, or alternatively, are due to temporal factors, 

 I am unable to suggest at this time. 



Stonework includes a rather varied assortment of chipped forms, 

 among them numerous heavy-stemmed arrowpoints and lesser quanti- 

 ties of end scrapers, flake knives, small disks, drill points, and knives. 

 There is one flake of translucent obsidian with notches at the end. 

 Unlike the Renner, the Trowbridge site has yielded no grooved axes 

 and, I believe, but one ground celt, of hematite. A dressed sandstone 

 slab 5.5 cm. wide by 7 cm. long has one curved end; the other is broken 

 off through a well-centered biconical perforation. This was probably 

 a gorget, of unknown length. A thin, flat, elliptical pebble, well 

 rubbed and measuring 17 by 21 mm., has a biconical hole 1 mm. in 

 diameter at one end, doubtless for suspension as an ornament. Sand- 

 stone abraders, as well as worn and grooved pumice fragments, are 

 found. 



