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Figure 12. — 13JH3, site map. 



a secondary deposition. It might thus be argued that stratum B is 

 borrow, erected upon a stripped, subsoil surface. There is no local 

 evidence as to the exact origin of the mounded borrow, but recent 

 cultivation has markedly disturbed adjacent areas. The charcoal 

 and artifact content suggest origin in an aboriginal occupation area. 

 Stratum B is capped by a varying thickness of humic turf. The 

 latter is disrupted in the central portion of the mound by a firepit, 

 the result of recent picknicking. An earlier, more extensive pit, 

 representing evidence of the original disturbance of the site, was 

 apparent beneath the picnic debris. The pit penetrated into the 



