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it? extent and promising surface indications comparatively few artifacts 
were found. Two large pits were discovered at its bottom, one 4 feet 
deep and 2 feet in diameter, the other 3 feet 9 inches deep, bulging out at 
the sides, near the bottom, to nearly 2| feet. Both were filled with ashes, 
black soil, animal bones, potteiy fragments, and a few artifacts. The 
ashes and black soil in these pits were mixed and not in separate layers. 
Deposit No. 4 is about 70 feet long, 35 feet wide, and 10 inches deep. 
The ash layer, from 2 to 3 inches thick, was not continuous, being smaller 
than the area excavated. An excavation, 18 by 25 feet in extent, was 
made in the deepest part of the deposit, but very few artifacts were found. 
Deposit No. 5 is 40 feet in diameter and 10 inches deep. An area of 
about 20 by 26 feet was excavated, but very few artifacts were discovered. 
A pit feet in diameter and about 2 feet deep lay near the northeast corner 
of the excavation. At the bottom was a 3-inch layer of sand, hardened 
apparently by fire, of which there was no other sign, and below was the 
natural, undisturbed sand. A few artifacts were found near the top of the 
pit, which was filled with discoloured soil. 
Deposit No. 6, on a low knoll, suggests by its oblong outline that it 
consists of two merged deposits. It is about 130 feet long by 50 feet 
wide, with a maximum depth of about 16 inches. Two excavations, one 
18 by 20 feet and the other 35 by 40 feet, were made in the deepest parts 
of the deposit, which consisted of the usual three layers. Over a part of 
the area excavated, the sand below the ash layer, which was from 3 to 6 
inches thick, had been hardened by fire. Many artifacts were discovered 
in this deposit. 
Deposit No. 7, on a low knoll, is about 55 by 60 feet in extent, with a 
depth of about 15 inches. An excavation 20 by 22 feet was made in this 
deposit. The ash layer, from 4 to 5 inches thick, was overlain near the 
middle of the deposit by a layer of sand 3 to 6 inches thick, above which 
was the usual top soil of discoloured earth. A few artifacts were found. 
Deposit No. 16, on a low knoll, is about 70 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 
about 1 foot deep. An excavation 30 feet square, made near the middle 
of the deposit, did not yield many artifacts. The ash layer was about 4 
inches thick. 
RESOURCES 
FOOD 
Vegetal Food 
Kernels of corn and a few fragments of cobs, a sunflower seed, and a 
fragment of a butternut, all carbonized, were the only evidences of vegetal 
foods discovered 1 . The corn kernels, most of which are large, occurred 
in several of the refuse deposits, but not so abundantly as at the Roebuck 
and other Iroquoian village sites in eastern Ontario. None of the frag- 
ments of cobs retained the kernels, but judging from the number of rows 
of pits on the largest fragment, the corn was probably all of the ten-rowed 
variety. 
iThe writer found carbonized beans in the refuse of a later Neutral site, on lot 7, con. IV, West Oxford township, 
about 13 miles northwest of Uren, so it is possible that beans were used here also. 
