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Five feet east of the stockade line and at a depth of 1 foot was a 

 saucer-shaped area (1.3 feet in diameter, 0.3 foot thick) filled with 

 soft white ash surrounded by reddish, burned earth. Sherds (Riggs 

 Flared Rim in zone 1, plain body sherd in zone 2) , stone artifacts, and 

 fragments of animal bone were in association. 



HABITATION AREAS 



Evidence of domestic occupation or related phenomena was found in 

 five areas. The following features are involved : 



Features 3 and 6 

 Feature 10 

 Features 25 and 14 

 Features 39 and 12 

 Features 40, 22, 23, and 41 



Features 3 and 6. — Feature 3 was a pronounced circular depression 

 about 30 feet in diameter, situated in the south-central portion of the 

 village enclosure. An area 30 by 35 feet was carefully skimmed to a 

 depth of about 1.0 foot, following natural stratigraphic levels. Since 

 little cultural evidence was appearing, work was concentrated in the 

 southern one-half of the excavation, skimming the floor to 2.0 feet be- 

 low surface. Two small tests were carried to a slightly greater depth. 

 No structural features were noted, but the profile of Feature 6 (fig. 56, 

 pi. 42, &), a 5.0 by 5.0 foot pit excavated to a depth of 5.7 feet, suggests 

 that a nebulous house floor may have been present. Some of the de- 

 pressions originally labeled as rodent burrows are strikingly like 

 pestholes in profile. Again, the southeast profile of Feature 3 (fig. 56) 

 indicates at least one, and perhaps two, cache pits deriving from the 

 same level. 



The few artifacts from this feature were found above the 2.0 foot 

 depth, mostly in the upper 0.6 foot of zone 3. Five rim sherds of the 

 type Riggs Flared Rim and two of Anderson Low Rim were recovered 

 from the 0.0 to 1.4 foot level. From 1.4 to 2.0 feet, the upper portion 

 of zone 3, only Anderson Low Rim sherds were reported. This level 

 is coincident with the putative house floor suggested in the previous 

 paragraph. Other occupational debris included stones, unidentifiable 

 bone fragments, and stone chipping detritus. 



Feature 10. — Feature 10 was a circular depression, approximately 

 50.0 feet in diameter, situated 340 feet south of the primary datum. 

 An east-west trench (pi. 43, <z), 45.0 feet long and 5.0 feet wide (be- 

 tween N660-N665 and E940-E985) was excavated in 0.5-foot levels to 

 a depth of 2.0 feet, following the surface contour. A central pit, 5.0 by 

 5.0 feet, was dug to a depth of 4.0 feet below surface. 



Tlie stubs of five fenceposts and numerous items of recent manufac- 

 ture were found in the 0.0- to 0.5-foot depth interval. These were in- 



