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analogous to native cache pits. After these pits were abandoned 

 for the storage of trade goods or other valuables, they were obviously 

 used for the deposit of kitchen refuse and other debris around the 

 post enclosure. 



SMALL PITS 



Five small square or rectangular pits (Features 8, 10, 28, 49, and 

 50) were found. Two of these, Features 28 and 49, contained cotton- 

 wood posts ; both had fills of mixed earth with some charcoal present. 

 They had apparently served only as postholes. 



Feature 8 was in front of the central and eastern cabins. It was 

 2.8 feet square in horizontal outline, and tapered to 2 feet in width 

 at the bottom. It was 2.5 feet in depth, containing fragments of 

 wood, a quantity of fired chinking, animal-bone fragments, nails, a 

 series of leather shoe fragments, clay-pipe fragments, a piece of glazed 

 earthenware, and birchbark. 



Feature 10 was in the east-central portion of the enclosure. It 

 was about 2.3 feet square and 1 foot deep. The fill was a hard flaky 

 soil that contained charcoal, pieces of lignite coal, a piece of animal 

 bone, granite fragments, and a piece of wrought iron. 



Feature 50, a small pit in the shed (F-65), measured 2 feet north 

 and south, and 1.4 feet east and west. Depth was 1 foot. The pit 

 fill was clay and it contained charred wood and six lead rifle balls. 



A small oval pit. Feature 9, was on the eastern side of the enclosure 

 near Feature 19, a fireplace. It measured 1.5 feet north and south 

 and 1.9 feet east and west; its depth was 1.6 feet. The pit fill was 

 a loose gray clay which contained about a pound of melted lead frag- 

 ments, one gun flint, small beads, and a wrought-iron harpoon. The 

 presence of melted lead in this pit and its closeness to a fireplace 

 indicate that it had some connection with the casting of rifle balls. 



BURIAL PIT AND BURIAL 



A small rectangular pit (F-52) was in the southeastern corner 

 of the enclosure abutting against the south stockade trench. It was 

 oriented north and south and was parallel to the east stockade trench. 

 The pit was 2.5 feet long, 1.3 feet wide, and 1.2 feet deep. It con- 

 tained a primary infant burial in a nailed wooden box and several 

 thousand blue glass seed beads. The burial was that of an infant 

 about 6 months of age. It was extended, and lying on its left side. 

 The head was to the south, with the face to the west (pi. 57, h). 



The sockets for the incisors, canine, first and second molars were 

 present, but the teeth were absent. The second left-lower incisor 

 was in place, largely because of the fact that it had not yet erupted. 

 The lower incisors erupt at between 6 and 9 months of age (Hooton, 

 1946, p. 732). 



