James Vorus, Mr. F. N. Davis, John, Jr., and myself arrived at the site
early this A.M. We had discussed moving to the edge of the site on the
south end, which we did. We established square 7R13 and set up for work.
The plowzone produced little material. The potsherds were scarce at the
bottom of the plowzone. There was no pattern of pits, or other features
to be found.
The next level, DD 6.2 to DD 6.5 produced several possible postmolds,
but when cross-sectioned, they were either tree roots or just shallow
black areas—not postmolds.
This level produced little material, only a few potsherds and debris.
From Datum depth 6.5 to 7.0 there was just a handful of potsherds. This
is a marked difference over the rest of the site that had been excavated
to date. As a rule, the sherds are plentiful. At DD 7.0 when the surface
was scraped off, the outline of a fireplace appeared and in the
fireplace was a small flat stone, under which was a considerable amount
of charred root. Readily identifiable were nut shells and hulls.
At DD 7.5 there was the outline of two pits in the subsoil (subsoil
first showed at DD 7.2), one small pit, the other three feet in
diameter. The pits were cross-sectioned with a two-foot trench. The two
pits were then photographed. The north wall was then scraped and marked
with lines at each running foot, the profile sketched in the wall, then
photographed, and drawn on the graph paper, using datum depths at each
line on each running foot of the profile. The square was filled shortly
before dark.