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firepit, and two small pocket caches. A bell-sliaped cache pit and a 

 midden deposit were located along the outer edge of the house. 

 Abundant remains of charred beams indicated that the structure had 

 been destroyed by fire. 



Table 1. — Collection of identifial>le rim sherds from Spain site {Component A) 



Pottery type 



Percent 



lona Indented 



lona Horizontal-Incised 



lona Diagonal-Incised 



lona S-Rim, Variety A 



lona S-Rim, Variety B 



lona S-Rim, Variety C 



lona S-Rim, Variety D 



Talking Crow Straight Rim 



Grey Cloud Horizontal-Incised 



There are also 320 rims, representing 20.5 percent of the total collec- 

 tion, that are listed under the heading of Miscellaneous. As mentioned 

 previously, four of these were later classified as Cadotte Collared. 

 It is apparent that the ceramic inventories and their propor- 

 tional representation, at the Spain site (Component A) and the Good 

 Soldier Component at 39LM238, are very similar, indicating a close 

 archeological relationship. The presence of one Stanley Tool Im- 

 pressed rim at Good Soldier and the absence of such a type at Spain 

 may be reason to suspect that the former site was occupied at a slightly 

 later date. Component A at the Spain site has been assigned to the 

 Shannon Focus of the Chouteau Aspect; a postulated date for the 

 component lies between A.D. 1550 and 1650. (Smith and Grange, 

 1958). 



Another component of the Shannon Focus is the Two Teeth site; 

 excavated in 1955 by a crew of the University of Kansas imder the 

 supervision of Carlyle S. Smith. This village is located across the 

 Missouri Eiver and about 4 miles upstream from the Good Soldier 

 site. Excavations here were conducted into the remains of two 

 circular earth lodges and several midden deposits. Smith (1959) 

 states that the same pottery types found at Spain plus "Cadotte 

 Collared, a small amount of Stanley Braced Rim Ware, and one stray 

 Campbell Creek Cord Marked sherd" were present at Two Teeth. It 

 would seem that the pottery inventories from Two Teeth and Good 

 Soldier are almost identical and that each of the components may be 

 contemporaneous occupations. On this basis the Good Soldier Com- 

 ponent fits into the Shannon Focus of the Chouteau Aspect and dates 

 no later than A.D. 1600. 



