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line separating the reddened upper stones from the unaltered ones 

 below, a color line that in one or two instances cut across some of the 

 larger individual upright slabs. I am unable to decide whether this 

 was the full size of the tomb as originally planned and constructed, 

 though it would seem a plausible view. Likewise, it is impossible 

 to say whether the chamber was roofed over with poles and brush or, 

 alternatively, filled up with dirt. The stones we noted therein are 

 in all probability some that were displaced when the west wall was 

 torn out. 



The smaller stones that mantled the earth about the structure, as 

 also in the case of Pearl C, may once have covered the central cham- 

 ber, but this point cannot now be conclusively established. On the 

 other hand, it is possible they were added much later, perhaps by 

 the persons who pulled up part of the west wall, deposited some pot- 

 tery and a few bones or else a skeleton that has since disappeared 

 almost completely, and then clumsily replaced the stones. Because 

 of the previous digging it was wholly impossible for us to trace the 

 limits of this intrusive grave, which, inferentially, extended a short 

 distance into the vault. Despite the fact that certain details must 

 remain forever obscure or wholly unknown, I feel certain that the 

 five shell-tempered pots found in and near the disturbed west wail 

 and in the upper fill in the southeast corner are intrusive and can 

 be attributed to a group distinct culturally and temporally from those 

 who erected the stone enclosure and placed therein the cremated human 

 bones and the miniature pot found near the base of the north wall. 



Plate 33, &, c, shows clearly the general appearance of the partially 

 excavated mound, and a comparison of c with figure 15 will indicate 

 the mterrelationships of the chamber, wall, surrounding earth fill, and 

 rock mantle. 



Artifacts from the mound included one complete and five broken 

 pottery vessels. The complete specimen, which lay on its side near 

 the base of the north wall, is amphora-shaped and measures 53 mm. 

 in height (pi. 36, a). Body and rim alike have a maximum diameter 

 of 49 mm., and the neck is 43 mm. across. The walls, buff-gray in 

 color, are of variable thickness and the surface is uneven. The only 

 attempt at ornamentation is a row of small elliptical punch marks 

 just below the lip. Two of these marks, on opposite sides of the 

 vessel, have been punched through the wall perhaps for attachment 

 of a thong or cord handle. There is no visible tempering. The pot 

 looks like the product of a child or an inexperienced potter, or it may 

 have been a miniature placed in the grave in lieu of one of the larger 

 utilitarian vessels contemporaneously in use among the natives. 



The jnr from the southeast corner of the chamber is of wholly 

 dissimilar type. Squat in vertical section, with a height of 9,2 cm. 



