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to a water bottle. Two sherds had a red slip and appear to 
be fragments of a water bottle. 
THE HERRELL VILLAGE (LOCATION XII) 
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Test trenches are now being laid in this site. Up to Novem- 
ber Ist three trenches were cut in that portion of the village 
that lies on a low second terrace! along the western half of 
the village. It was found that the habitation layer had been 
partly destroyed by the plow but deeper portions of the habita- 
tion zone and particularly numerous and small pits were largely 
undisturbed. 
Shallow pits were approximately 1 meter in diameter con- 
taining several layers of broken pottery fragments intercalated 
with basin shaped clay layers. These pits were not over 50 
centimeters deep or 35 to 40 centimeters below the original 
habitation level. They were usually close to small oval baked 
clay or large irregular fireplaces. A few of the pits had very 
large complete common bowls in them. (See Plate VIII A). 
Where not completely broken up by the plow it was quite 
apparent that the rims of the pits lay on the same level as 
the fireplaces. Therefore, these pits were apparently used for 
cooking purposes. Animal bone and mussel shell fragments 
were found in a few of them showing that these were also 
used as refuse pits. Several large limestone blocks were found 
under one of them. The bottoms of most of these shallow pits 
were lined with clay. 
Just to the northeast of this pit we encountered a long 
rectangular depression in which were found over 4000 pottery 
Sherds. Indeed it was the rectangular outline in the ground pro- 
duced by the disposition of these sherds that caused us to notice 
the pit outline. The southeast end of this pit was convex, was 
heavily burned and contained no sherds. 
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1The eastern half of this site lies along a low flat ridge above 
the second terrace and has been named Zone III. It is hoped that 
the owner will allow us to investigate here. 
