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filled with charcoal and ashes. Below the ash pit proper was a 

 deposit of sand intermixed with bits of charcoal, calcined animal 

 bones and lumps of intruding soil. At 48" a layer of flat stones 

 was discovered. These were removed and 6" below, the top of a 

 broken pot was uncovered. The surrounding earth was removed 

 and the crumbling skeleton of a female disclosed. Orientation : head 





Fig. 9 Diagram of grave XXII. A ■= Top soil and 

 disturbed layer; B = Fire pit; C = Disturbed sand over- 

 lying grave soil; D = Undisturbed sand; E ■= Overlying 

 cover of shale slabs; F = Decayed organic matter; G ■= 

 Clay 



east, face south, left side, flexed position. The pottery vessel was 

 at the occiput [see text fig. 9] . 



Grave XXIII, pit 48, Avas in trench 4 at 99' in the middle of the 

 trench. It was 5' by 8' in dimensions and 30" deep. As the 

 trench was one in the village section, that the pit was a grave was 

 not suspected until a workman thrust his spade through the skull 

 and the pottery vessel. The skeleton lay in a stratum of ashes, 

 charcoal and sand discolored by decayed matter. Orientation : head 

 east, face south, left side, flexed position. The broken pot which 

 lay at the occiput was restored. The bones of the skeleton were 

 well preserved by the ashes and seemed to yet contain a saponaceous 

 substance, perhaps produced by the mixture of the lye from the 

 ashes and the natural oleaginous matter in the tissue. 



