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ened. There was only one fragment of a chipped implement at 
the higher occupation. No small coarsely chipped isosceles pro- 
jectile points were found in this area. These figures may be 
rather significant and seem to indicate a more or less constant 
occupation of a recent prehistoric group just north of the large 
boulders and two more or less recent occupations just north 
of the center of the shelter, the earlier Woodland with Mississip- 
pi influence and later a Mississippi with Woodland influence 
group. 
A square nail, an Imperial Plain sherd and a short broad 
projectile point were found at a depth of 45 centimeters in the 
area where the intermittent stream issues from under the ovet- 
hang, but in this area one would tend to expect a mixture of 
ancient and modern, being in the path of the stream. The 
crockery, tin can fragments, Civil War bullet and button were all 
found within fireplaces very close to the surface (15 centimeters ) 
and without pottery so can scarcely be considered evidence © 
Indian contacts with the early settlers. 
ROUGGLY ROCK SHELTER (LOCATION VIHI) 
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The Rouggly rock shelter is under a bluff which projects 
over a rock platform on which there are silt deposits of only a 
few centimeters depth. A narrow talus slope in front of this 
rock platform slopes down into the Plattin Creek and revealed 
evidence of occupation up to a depth of approximately 75 cent 
meters (30 inches). The entrance faces south. There were tw? 
depressed oval fireplaces of mixed clay and silt fill close to the 
surface. Pottery fragments and artifacts were found from the 
surface to sterile bottom which consisted of a mixture of rock 
outcrop and gravel deposited by the stream. 
Herculaneum Cord Roughened sherds of which there were 
699, were found distributed evenly from the surface down- 
ward. Twenty-five of these sherds were tempered with lime 
Stone and these were also found evenly distributed from the 
surface to the base of the deposits. Only 18 Imperial Plain 
sherds were discovered and these were uniformly close to the 
surface. There were also a few Plattin Clay Tempered sherds 
