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otherwise noted, the color, texture, and nature of the soils in the shovel tests matched that in <br />nearby auger tests and the reader is referred to those descriptions in Table A-1. <br />Shovel Test 1 (at 21.5N/20E). In order to ascertain the presence or absence of <br />subsurface cultural materials in an area where no surface lithics had been found, 20cm diameter <br />STI was opened on a small level bench at the extreme northeast corner of the prominence, <br />1.5m north of Auger Test 28 (Figure 2). Occasional fragments of sandstone were present in the <br />upper 10cm of fill and, at a depth of 12cm below pgs the fill became primarily sandstone clasts <br />and excavation was discontinued. A single small chert flake (FS4) was recovered from the <br />upper IOcm of fill. The removed fill was screened through 1/8" mesh hardware cloth. <br />Shovel Test 2 (at 14.1N/2.7E). ST2 was opened approximately in the middle of the site <br />as defined by the surface lithics and the edges of the prominence in order to investigate the <br />nature of the cultural deposits in the central locus (Figure 2). Using 1/8" screen, a single flake <br />(FS6) was collected from the surface of the 20 x 20cm test (another was noted just 5cm outside <br />of the tested area), 13 were recovered in the 0-1 Ocm level (FS7), 6 from 10-20cm (FS8), and 3 <br />from 20-25cm (FS9). It should be noted that the density of the rock content increased as did <br />the depth. Accordingly, approximately 75% of the 0-10 level was screenable dirt, 60% of the <br />10-20 level, and only 40% of the bottom level – intimating that the density of lithic debitage <br />within a given unit of fill was not actually decreasing in depth as much as is suggested by the <br />above flake counts. <br />What initially appeared to represent a concentration of oxidized (heat -reddened) <br />sandstone clasts was exposed in the southern third of the shovel test at 5-1 Ocm in depth. <br />Virtually all of the fragments of sandstone above the 10-11 cm level were reddened; less so <br />below this. There were fewer rocks in the 20-25cm level; however, at 25cm the entire base of <br />the test unit was rock. <br />Based on the significant number of flakes recovered, and the notable amount of <br />oxidized sandstone, Test Pit 1, and subsequently Test Pit 2, were established at this location in <br />search of a thermal feature to account for the heat -altered rock. Descriptions of these tests are <br />in the section entitled Grid -oriented Test Pits. <br />Shovel Test 3 (at 5NOE). ST3 was opened at the location of Auger Test 8 based on the <br />presence of charcoal fragments found there at a depth of 20-35cm. Shovel Test 3 measured <br />25cm x 35cm and reached a maximum depth of 60cm before the density of the sandstone <br />fragments became so compact that it was determined to represent the base of the soil—and <br />cultural—deposits. As in the nearby auger tests, the soil was consistent and unstratified, with <br />15 <br />