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site had been destroyed through intensive cultivation and that no 

 remnants remained undisturbed. 



The plowed zone averaged 8 to 9 inches in thickness and contained 

 fragments of broken stones, chips of stone, and an occasional potsherd. 

 None of this material was plentiful. 



Surface indications showed that the cultural material was spread 

 over a distance 50 feet long by 25 feet wide. It is doubtful if the 

 original deposit covered as large an area, for plow drag may have 

 spread it somewhat. 



Eleven body sherds were recovered from this site. They are cord- 

 wrapped paddled 1, fabric-marked 3, combed 1, and textile-impressed 6. 



SITE 44MC8 



Site 44Mc8, a small village site, mapped at 78°25'46'' longitude, 

 36°35'48" latitude and east of the juncture of Butchers Creek and 

 the Roanoke River, lay in an old cornfield on the north bank of the 

 river in the Boydton Magisterial District. Surface indications cov- 

 ered an area roughly 100 feet long by about 75 feet wide. 



Testing revealed that there was no depth to this site. Most of 

 the cultural material was incorporated within the plowed zone. Plow- 

 ing, in the past, had scattered the sherds and other cultural debris 

 over a wider area than that in which it was originally deposited. 



A trough-shaped metate was found on the surface of the site as 

 well as a number of fragmentary nutting stones. None were saved 

 on account of their weight. 



A random collection gave us 6 steatite sherds, 1 of wdiich had 

 an ovate-shaped handle or lug just below the rim; 1 crude notched 

 stone; 1 small quartz hammerstone; 2 slate fragmentary tools; 2 

 stemmed quartz projectile points; 1 triangular quartz point with 

 excurvate base; 2 fragmentary quartz points; 1 lanceolate chert 

 point; 3 fragmentary chert points; 1 fragment of red ocher; and 79 

 potsherds. 



The sherds were subdivided into the following: net impressed, 1 

 body sherd; cord- wrapped paddle, 5 body and 1 rim sherds; fabric- 

 marked, 1 body; combed, 1 body sherd; plain, 12 body and 1 rim 

 sherds ; textile-impressed, 59 body sherds. 



SITE 44MC9 



Site 44Mc9, a small campsite located at 78°26'32" longitude, 

 36°35'43" latitude, is just west of the juncture of Ilandley Creek and 

 the Roanoke River. Surface indications measured 100 feet long by 

 24 feet wide. 



The site suffered from erosional action of the frequent freshets, 

 which accounts for the widely scattered cultural material. Testing 



