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Burial No. 4^.— Associated with the poorly preserved skeleton of a 

 very small child were a few disk-shaped shell beads found beneath the 

 chin portion of the skull. The child was introduced extended and on 

 its back into the oval grave. 



Burial No. 4^.— This is a female, age 19-20, which lay flexed at 

 the base of an oval-shaped midden pit. She lay on her left side with 

 arms bent and one hand in front of her face. Knees were closely 

 flexed. Beneath the chest cavity were the sternum, various long bones, 

 and other bones of a turkey. A crushed, sand-tempered, carinated 

 bowl lay beside her feet. 



Burial No. Ji.6. — This grave held the remains of a mature female, 

 flexed and lying on her right side with head pointing to the south- 

 southeast. The bones were very soft and spongy and crumbled shortly 

 after exposure. Measuring 42 inches across its longest axis, like most 

 of the others this grave was oval in outline. It originated shortly 

 under the humus-plowed zone and extended downward to a depth 

 of 42 inches. 



Between the areas of the chin and the top of the chest were the re- 

 mains of a Busycon sp. gorget or pendant which bore a number of 

 black markings. Before any photographs or drawings could be made 

 it was destroyed by one of the many visitors to the site who slipped 

 under the barrier. 



Burial No. Jf.8. — Lying on its back with knees up and to the right 

 and with head to the west was the position of an adult male skeleton. 

 Preservation was poor. The oval-shaped grave was filled with heavy 

 midden material. To the rear and touching iho, skull was a crude chert 

 projectile point whose base pointed toward the foot of the grave while 

 the tip slanted upward. Wliether this projectile point had been 

 shot into the man's scalp or was introduced into the grave along with 

 the rest of the midden could not be determined, since there was no scar 

 on the skull which would indicate that the man remained alive after 

 receiving the point under his scalp. On the same plane not far from 

 the projectile point was a crude chert scraper which had been part of 

 the midden fill. A number of fire-broken stones lay in the vicinity 

 of the skull. 



Burial No. 51. — Buried in the upper portion of a large midden pit 

 were the poorly preserved remains of an adult female. She was 

 flexed and placed on her left side with head pointing to the east. Ac- 

 companying the skeleton were a number of hardheads, both complete 

 and broken. 



Burial No. 52. — Associated with a flexed adult male was a turtle 

 carapace lying in front of the face (pi. 78, a) . The open side was down 

 and there was nothing either mside the carapace or beneath it. At the 

 foot of the oval grave, which was at a depth of 3.3 feet, there was a 

 small hole 0.4 foot in diameter which extended downward another 0.9 



