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this blackened earth were in three connected centers with bands of 
lighter earth passing between them. There is no evidence, however, 
to show that this arrangement was anything other than accidental. 
Another pit about 3 feet in diameter and extending 1 foot below 
the floor level was filled with fire-blackened earth. Apparently it 
had been dug inside the northeast corner of the cabin. Five cartridge 
shells manufactured sometime during the 1880’s, a lead bullet, a piece 
of tin, and some pieces of glass were found in the pit. 
Cabin 2—Almost the entire outline of cabin 2 was excavated to 
its floor level. A very small portion of the surface layer was left 
undisturbed along the south wall in order to illustrate the original 
depression line in relationship to the buried floor level. A rock was 
found in the west end of the cabin, and in the east end there were 
three more stones together with two smaller cobblestones. A simple 
fire hearth was exposed near the rock pile and in a corner of the cabin. 
Three tin cans in a poor state of preservation were found at various 
places on the floor. The cabin itself was originally rectangular in 
outline with a slightly concave floor. 
Cache pit 1—Unexcavated, cache pit 1 was a circular depression 
in the ground about 5 feet in diameter. After excavation it proved 
to be a bell-shaped, flat-bottomed cache pit about 6 feet in depth. 
Its walls were very well defined, but they had a tendency to collapse 
easily, as it had been dug through a deep sand layer. No evidence 
of reinforcing wood, willows, or clay was noticed along its walls. 
The top of the cache pit was saucer-shaped and about 1 foot deep. 
At the bottom of the saucer was an opening to the bell-shaped cist. 
below. At this constricted part of the pit the diameter was 4 feet 
3 inches. Below this neck the pit enlarged until it reached an addi- 
tional 41% feet in depth. 
In the top layers of the cache pit there were tin cans, several nails, 
and some buttons. In the neck there were parts of burned sticks 
which had once formed a sort of lid or seal from the pit below. 
Small logs had been laid across each other at this constricted part of 
the cache, and above these had been placed brush, earth, and rocks. 
Below the lid was the skeleton of a large calf, complete and un- 
butchered. A heavy layer of larvae shells ranging from 2 to 4 inches 
thick extended above and within the carcass of the calf. Maggots had 
had an opportunity to feast on the animal after it had been placed in 
the pit. The position of the bones, being disarticulated by collapsing 
and not from the pressure of earth around the skeleton, indicates that 
it took several years for the pit to fill with earth once it was abandoned. 
A heavy green canvas had been wrapped around the animal before it 
had been deposited in the cache pit. Underneath the canvas there 
