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Three corner-notched projectile points and several flakes were in asso- 

 ciation with the firepit. Until this site was excavated only simple 

 triangular points or triangular points with side notches had been 

 found with such firepits. 



Three firepits, projectile points, scrapers, and a variety of worked 

 flakes were found in tests at 24BH210, a large open site in Big Horn 

 County. Two additional open sites, 24BH254 and 24BH259, were 

 located in a badly eroded area, and tests showed that artifacts were 

 restricted to the surface. 



Site 24BH204 at the mouth of Porcupine Creek was tested but with 

 negative results. Animal bone was abundant but it may have origi- 

 nated from gold camps that once operated at this location. Site 

 24BH214, about 1 mile above the mouth of Porcupine Creek, was only 

 slightly more productive. Artifacts were limited to a corner-notched 

 projectile point and a few scrapers. 



Late in the season, the Husted party made exploratory tests at site 

 48BH217, in Big Horn County, Wyo., a short distance south of the 

 Montana border. An Agate Basin point was found here in the course 

 of land leveling for a cabin. Although tests were extensive, little of 

 significance was recovered. The party completed its work on August 

 29 after 72 days in the field. 



Another field party of nine men, under the direction of Lionel A. 

 Brown, was working in the Pony Creek watershed in southw^estern 

 Iowa. A survey of the area added a number of new sites to the record, 

 a number of tests were made, and five sites were excavated. Unfortu- 

 nately, most of the endangered sites examined by the field party had 

 been damaged in some degree by erosion or cultivation; nonetheless, 

 architectural remains were found at four of them. 



Two square houses were excavated at the Stonebrook Village 

 (13ML219) and fragments of house floors were found at both the 

 Downing (13ML218) and Steinheimer (13ML222) sites. The house 

 structures ranged from 20 to 30 feet square, with deep vertical walls 

 and entrances approaching 15 feet in length. The associated artifacts 

 include ceramics of the Beckman and McVey series, clay effigies and 

 pipestems, side-notched projectile points, ovoid to triangular knives, 

 planoconvex end scrapers, pecked and chipped celts, but surprisingly 

 very little worked bone. 



The Thomas site (13ML204) contained a mixture of pottery pri- 

 marily representative of the Woodland horizon and the Central Plains 

 Tradition. The rimsherd collection includes examples of Sterns 

 Creek, Beckman Ware, Swoboda Ware, and one example classified as 

 Anderson Low Rim. The primary feature at the site was a pit, 20 feet 

 square, similar to house pits reported for the Woodland of eastern 

 Nebraska. 



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