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mains, were designated as features. Each feature was numbered, 

 carefully described on special "Feature Forms," and photographed 

 in the order of its discovery regardless of the component with which 

 it was associated. Therefore, the feature numbers assigned to the 

 various components are not in consecutive order. Features 2, 7, 8, 

 and 9 were associated with the Good Soldier Component and are 

 described in detail below. 



Feature 2. — One pesthole and three articulated bison vertebrae. The bone 

 was 2.0 feet north of the pesthole. After being cored, the posthole was 

 found to contain a portion of coyote skull. No artifacts were located in 

 direct association with these remains. The top of this feature was in 

 square N140W50 at 0.6 foot below the surface. 



Feature 7. — A concentration of pottery, a fragment of worked bison scapula 

 and several catfish bones. The pottery fragments, 3 rims and 14 body 

 sherds, all belong to a single vessel. This section of the vessel was re- 

 stored in the laboratory and is identified as the type lona Indented 

 (Smith and Grange, 1958). Feature 7 was located in square N140W35 at 

 0.8 foot below the surface. 



Feature 8. — Consists of five articulated and two separate bison vertebrae. 

 The remains were located in situ at square N140W30 between 0.3 and 

 0.5 foot below the surface. 



Feature 9. — A line of stones 5 feet in length, two postholes, and a basin- 

 shaped pit. The stone line, oriented almost exactly north-south, con- 

 sisted of 17 hand-sized cobblestones. The two postholes were located 

 symmetrically on opposite sides and about 1 foot from the stones. A line 

 joining the centers of the postholes would be perpendicular to the line of 

 stones and would intersect it at a point 2.0 feet from the south end. The 

 easterly posthole had bison bone wedges while the western one contained 

 the remains of a cedar post. The basin-shaped pit was located less than 

 1 foot east of the eastern posthole. Fill from the pit was composed of 

 hematite-stained soil and a small amount of burned earth. The pit 

 measured 2.3 feet north-south, 2.0 feet east-west, and had a maximum 

 depth of 0.5 foot. This feature was located in square N145W45 at 1.5 

 feet below the surface. 



ARTIFACTS 



POTTERY 



The ceramic collection associated with the Good Soldier Component 

 at 39LM238 includes the following pottery types : lona Indented, Grey 

 Cloud Horizontal-Incised, Talking Crow Straight Rim, Cadotte Col- 

 lared, Stanley Tool Impressed, and a few miscellaneous rims. 



A total of 241 body sherds was recovered ; 83 of these were simple 

 stamped and 158 were plain surfaced. In addition, there were 51 

 decorated sherds, almost all of which are from the shoulder area of 

 vessels ; 39 of these sherds bear parallel incised lines, 2 have parallel 

 trailed lines, 8 are incised with opposed diagonals, 1 has trailed, op- 

 posed diagonals, and 1 bears an incised herringbone motif. These 

 decorative designs are common to all of the above-named pottery types, 



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