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form the corner of a rectangular house. The case remains unproven, 

 but considered with the associated rim sherds, the latter house type 

 would appear to be the best possibility. 



Features 22, 23, li.1, and Jfi. — Test pits 22 and 23 were excavated 

 adjacent to the terrace edge. Since a number of artifacts were found, 

 the two test pits were connected by a trench 95.0 feet long and 5.0 

 feet wide (Feature 40). Near the center of the trench, the strati- 

 graphic sequence varied from the usual. Intervening between the 

 uppermost humus (zone 1) and the old humus deposit (zone 2), was 

 a brown deposit (0.7 to 0.8 foot thick) divisible into a darker upper 

 half and a lighter basal portion. Zone 1 extended to depth 0.4 foot, 

 zone 2 from 1.1 to 1.4 feet, and zone 3 below 1.4 feet. 



Two aboriginal pits were found within the limits of the trench. 

 Near the center, originating at depth 0.4 foot (the surface of the 

 brown matrix) and extending to 2.0 feet, was an excavation of in- 

 determinate shape. It was filled with a sterile "whitish" fill, probably 

 ash. About 3 feet to the north was a globular cache pit with a con- 

 stricted neck. The pit apparently originated at or somewhat below 

 the surface of zone 3. The mouth was approximately 1.6 feet in 

 diameter, widening to 2.2 feet maximum width of body. The convex 

 bottom extended to 2.2 feet below the upper margin of zone 3. The 

 fill contained flecks of charcoal and ash, a few plain body sherds, and 

 rodent bones. 



About 25 feet north of the cache pit was a burned area consisting 

 of reddened earth and flecks of charcoal. At the south end of the 

 trench, near Feature 23, another firepit (Feature 41) was discovered 

 at a depth of 0.9 foot below surface (brown stratum). The fire basin 

 was a shallow (0.5 foot) saucer-shaped depression 2.3 feet in diameter, 

 containing a mass of white ash. A few sherds were present adjacent 

 to the fire area. The Riggs Punctate examples with fingernail im- 

 pressions were concentrated here. 



Three post molds were found close to the surface near the north 

 end of the trench. Two contained wood fragments. Diameters 

 ranged from 0.35 to 0.55 foot, depths from 1.0 to 2.0 feet. The posts 

 were spaced about 15.0 feet apart on a north-south alinement, suggest- 

 ing that they are the remains of a recent fence line. 



With one exception, a plate chalcedony Imife from zone 3, all arti- 

 facts were restricted to zone 1 and the underlying brown stratum. 

 Six rim sherds of the type Riggs Punctate and two of Riggs Flared 

 Rim were excavated in association with leaf-shaped knives of Bijou 

 Hills Quartzite, one plate chalcedony knife, a single end scraper, 

 a single irregular spall with worked edges, and a large metapodial 

 flesher. 



