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LIGHT YELLOW CLAY FILL 



PINK CLAY AND ASH 



LIGHT YELLOW CLAY FILL 



LIGHT YELLOW CLAY FILL 



LIGHT GRAY CLAY 



GAP 



LEVEL 3 

 GAP 



GRAY ASH ans ^ip^jSi'Z'^ 



Figure 2. — He-4, Mound I, Trench 1, south face. 



The lack of occupational refuse layers or indications of structures, 

 with the exception of the floors, and the presence of clay fill and ash 

 layers suggest that the mound may have been built up as a burial 

 mound in a series of stages, each connected with a burial ceremony 

 involving the use of fire — hence the ash layers. There is no evidence 

 of cremation such as burned bones or burned vessel interiors. 

 Although there was a relatively high number (about 1,350 sherds) of 

 Red-buff or "utilitarian" ware sherds taken out of Trench 1, this need 

 not represent an accumulation due to actual habitation of the mound, 



