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28 mni. wide, and 12 mm. thick (pi. 50, x). It was found in the 1.0- 

 1.5 foot level at square N145W45. The second specimen is a knife 

 fragment. It consists of a fine grained, grayish quartzite that is 

 patinated along portions of one face and a side edge (pi. 50, y). The 

 piece is 20 mm. long, 34 mm. wide, and 6 mm. thick. It was located 

 at a depth of 1.3 feet in square N150W50. 



Oroup 3 (ttvo specimens). — Both pieces are steeply beveled along 

 the side edges, rectangular in outline, and are made of Bijou Hills 

 quartzite. The larger specimen is incomplete and appears to be the 

 upper portion of a knife, or possibly a drill with opposite faces alter- 

 nately beveled. It was located in the 1.0-1.5 foot level at square 

 N145W30. The smaller piece is the midsection of a bifacially flaked 

 blade that has been steeply beveled along one side edge from both 

 faces. It was located in the 1.0-1.5 foot level at square N145W45. 



WORKED FLAKES 



(14 specimens) 



These pieces consist of asymmetrical flakes showing unifacial re- 

 touch along one or more side edges. A few are no doubt fragments 

 broken from side and/or end scrapers. One specimen has a semi- 

 circular notch chipped into each of its two side edges. It has been 

 suggested that this type of tool may have been used for cutting arrow 

 shafts (Cosner, 1956) . All of these flakes were recovered from within 

 1.0 to 2.5 feet depths. 



PROBLEMATICAL OBJECT 



(1 specimen) 



This specimen is tubular and broken at one end. It may be a section 

 of a bead, or simply a limestone concretion (pi. 50, s). The piece 

 measures 22 mm. long, has an outside diameter of 14 mm. and an inside 

 diameter of 6 mm. It was located in the 1.5-2.0 foot level at square 



N190W50. 



DISCUSSION OF THE BADGER COMPONENT 



In describing the pottery and certain projectile point specimens 

 from this component I have referred to other sites from which similar 

 artifacts were collected. It is evident that the remains of at least 

 three types of pottery vessels are represented in the relatively thin 

 soil zone of stratum 4; evidence as to whether or not the makers 

 of these vessels occupied the site contemporaneously or at different 

 times is inconclusive. A comparable archeological situation involv- 

 ing the kinds of specimens assigned to the Badger Component has 

 not been reported. Nevertheless, in light of the carbon-14 dates 

 related to pottery specimens similar to those in Groups A, B, and C, 



