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right directly before the face and another at the pelvis. Orienta- 

 tion: head northeast, face northwest, right side, tightly flexed. 



Grave XIII, pit 22, in trench 3 at 45' proved to be the grave of 

 a child of perhaps 6 years. The bones were fragile and broken 

 and the skull was crushed by the weight of the earth. The grave 

 bottom was 28" below the surface. Before the face was a pottery 

 vessel of Iroquoian form. The rim is missing from an ancient 

 breakage and the pot body is cracked. Orientation : head south, 

 face east, right side, flexed position. 



Grave XIV, pit 23, in trench 3 was at 50' on the west side of the 

 trench. This pit was traced down by the disturbed sand in which 

 were lumps of topsoil, charred wood and fire-cracked stone. A 

 badly decayed skeleton of an adult female lay at 52" below the sur- 

 face in the clay stratum. To the rear of the skull was a pottery 

 vessel having an ancient rim break. The three missing pieces were 

 found in the grave soil and the vessel restored [see pi. 30, fig. 4]. 

 An examination of the break suggested that it must have been 

 caused by a stone or hard lump of earth when the grave was filled. 

 Orientation : head south, face east, right side, flexed position. 



Grave XV, pit 24, in trench 3 at 55' was on the east side of the 

 trench. It contained the crumbling skeleton of an adult lying 48" 

 below the surface. It was impossible to discover the position and 

 there were no objects in the grave. 



Grave XVI, pit 25, in trench 3 was just north of pit 24. At 42" 

 from the surface the grave bottom was found and in it a deposit of 

 bone dust. 



Grave XVII, pit 33, in trench 3 at 65' on the east side of the 

 trench was similar in character to grave XVI. At 48" down there 

 was a deposit of bone dust and a crushed pottery vessel. 



Grave XVIII, pit 39, at 13' on the east side of trench 5 con- 

 tained the crumbling remains of a young adult male. A pottery 

 vessel, F481 was found at the occiput an inch or two to the east. 

 A small triangular flint arrow point was found in the lumbar vertebra 

 and a fragment of a blue glass bead^ at the pelvis. The grave was 

 rectangular in outline being 35" by 48" and 36" deep. Orientation 

 of the skeleton : head northwest, face southwest, right side, position 

 flexed. 



Grave XIX, pit 40 at 17' on the west side of trench 5 was rect- 

 angular in outline, being 3' by 4' and 49" deep. The skeleton was 

 that of an adult and so badly decayed that the teeth crumbled at 



^This was the only object of glass found in any part of the site. 



