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and west of the exploratory trench, without particular concern for 

 compass orientation, but following the course of the stockade trench, 

 sections of which had been exposed. In these test squares, further 

 sections of the original stockade trench were made, and the tests were 

 extended east and west until a change in the alinement of the original 

 trench was observed, at a corner approximately 50 feet west of the 

 exploratory trench. From this point northward, similar tests were 

 then made, the test squares following the alinement of the west face 

 of the original enclosure. It had now become clear that the site 

 of the post lay north of the corral and farm buildings, and did not 

 enclose them as had been supposed. Sections were then made of the 

 north face of the enclosure, in a similar fashion, though no actual 

 intersection of west and north faces was found. 



Portions of the south, west, and north sides of the stockade having 

 been located by sectioning, together with one clearly defined corner 

 at the point of intersection of the west and south faces, a road patrol 

 (blade) was obtained, with an experienced operator, to expose the 

 outline of the whole enclosure in horizontal section. Work was be- 

 gun with this motor equipment at a point near the presumed inter- 

 section of north and west stockade lines, though as has been noted no 

 actual intersection of these lines had been found in hand excavations. 

 During this time also, a portion of the northerly half of the entire 

 enclosed area (that enclosed by the three sides known) was also bladed 

 off, the earth being moved well to the east, to an area of slightly lower 

 elevation, in the hope of locating further architectural remains or 

 similar features (pi. 19, h). Only one such site (House-site A) was 

 discovered in this process, and it is probable that prolonged cultivation 

 of the entire site had destroyed other building remains elsewhere 

 within the stockade area. 



In the course of this mechanical work, the alinement of the stock- 

 ade trench previously opened by hand excavation on the south, west, 

 and north was also cleared once more by blading away the balks 

 between preliminary test squares. Wlien the east face of the stock- 

 ade had also been exposed by blading ( after the northeast and south- 

 east angles of the original enclosure had been located by hand 

 exploration), the original stockade trench was revealed in horizontal 

 section in its entirety, and the true size of the former post became 

 apparent (pi. 23). 



The initial exploratory excavation trench, excavated by hand, was 

 also continued approximately 150 feet northward from its starting 

 point, and when extended into the interior of the enclosed area, ex- 

 posed remains of the additional building (House-site B), in charred 

 and decayed sills and random wood-fragments, fired adobe-clay chink- 

 ing, and plentiful artif actual materials (pi. 22, a). In the course of 



