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Miscellaneous chipped stone fragments. — In addition to the above 

 specimens, which can be placed in artifact categories, 31 specimens 

 were collected that are too fragmentary to be classified. These con- 

 sist of 6 projectile-point tips, 5 projectile-point or blade fragments 

 from the area between the base and the point, 2 probable end-scraper 

 fragments, and 18 fragments which show secondaiy chipping along 

 only one edge. The predominant material is gray Flint Hills chert. 

 One unfinished projectile point was also recovered. 



Unidentified artifact. — One piece of highly siliceous, worked hema- 

 tite with a hardness of 6.5 (vesuvianite in the modified Mohs hardness 

 scale) was recovered. It shows definite signs of rubbing and scratch- 

 ing on two surfaces. Were it not for its hardness, one might suspect 

 that it had served as a source of pigment. The piece measures 54 mm. 

 in length, 34 mm. in width, and averages 7 mm. in thickness. 



Paint. — Three limonite fragments and four burned limestone frag- 

 ments were collected. All are probably of local origin, and probably 

 served as sources of yellow and white paint. 



Unworhed stone. — There were 327 irregularly shaped flakes of 

 chert, lacking any traces of secondary chipping, recovered at the site. 

 Gray Flint Hills chert is the predominant material, although tan and 

 white cherts are also represented. 



CULTURAL AFFILIATION 



Potsherds with dentate- and rocker-stamping and large, expanding- 

 stem projectile points indicate an identification with Kansas City 

 Hopewell as defined by Wedel ( 1943) . Since no cultural stratification 

 could be discovered and the artifacts appear to be culturally homogene- 

 ous, it is assumed that the site has but one component. Therefore, 

 specimens from the surface were grouped with those from the exca- 

 vations for descriptive purposes. 



Site 14WO209 



This site is located on a slight rise on the northeast side of the 

 Verdigris River (fig. 59). It covers an area approximately 1,100 feet 

 in length (NW-SE) by 300 feet in width (NE-SW). A slightly 

 heavier concentration of material is found at the southeast end of the 

 site in an area 200 feet by 130 feet. Any surface features that may 

 once have been present have been destroyed by cultivation (fig. 61). 



EXCAVATIONS 



Two 5-foot-square test pits were laid out in the area of greatest 

 surface concentration. The first of these was excavated to a depth 

 of 1.0 foot, the second to a depth of 0.7 foot, at which point work was 



