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Only a few sherds were found in the mound fill and not a 
single indentifiable artifact. Curiously enough these sherds were 
Imperial Plain and one had a heavy red slip. Two years ago 
the author found a tetrapod pot with a heavy red slip in the 
tavern belonging to Paul Franz at House Springs in the western 
part of the county. Mr. Franz stated that the man who presented 
it to him dug it up from the mound on Buck Knob. The pot 
had had a vertical neck which was missing and a wide but short 
body. The pot is Imperial Plain and had a rose-red slip. In view 
of the discovery of the red slip sherd from the mound it is highly 
possible that the pot had been dug out of the northern half of 
the mound. However, we cannot be absolutely certain that this 
sherd belonged to the missing neck of the pot. 
Ill. LOCATIONS ON LOWLANDS 
THE PITTSBURGH VILLAGE (LOCATION IX) 
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This site is in a level area on a low ridge or high second 
terrace above the left bank of Plattin Creek. Fragments of long 
stemmed projectile points have been gathered from the surface 
for a long time by local amateurs. Of over 40 small test trenches 
excavated, evidence of only three temporary fireplaces close to 
the surface but widely separated from each other were found. 
Most of the test trenches yielded no aboriginal remains. No evi- 
dence of house structures was found. A few fragments of 
pottery and 18 stone implements were found. All of the pottery 
was of Herculaneum Cord Roughened ware. The tempering 1s 
very fine and there appear to be fragments of clay and possibly 
organic tempering intermixed with the grit. A crude round 
burned clay disc with a small concavity on one side was also 
found. The chipped stonework consists of short rather broad 
expanding-stemmed base points, an asymmetric knife and an 
oval blade knife broader at one end than at the other. A thin 
limestone ax with flaring bit and small irregular igneous pebbles 
with flat grinding surfaces were also found. In view of the 
large number of small test trenches it is believed that a repre- 
sentative cross-section of this site was obtained in spite of the 
scarcity of remains. Erosion by surface water and plow action 
