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As in the other test excavations at the site, no evidence of intact cultural layers, features, <br />or activity loci were encountered. Each of the excavated segments of the trench were cleared to <br />the contact with sandstone bedrock—which was intact in places and highly weathered and <br />decomposed in others. This contact ranged from 25cm to 58cm in depth below the present <br />ground surface in various portions of the trench. Soils throughout reflected that found in Auger <br />Tests 8 through 12 (Table A-1). Cultural materials in the form of lithic tools and debitage, <br />occasional charcoal fragments, and apparently randomly -dispersed oxidized fragments of <br />sandstone were recovered from each of the above tests. <br />AMS samples were recovered from two areas within TTI and sent to International <br />Chemical Analysis, Inc. of Miami for analyses. From Section D-1, 0-10cm, carbon was dated <br />130±30 BP (Cal 1670-1780 AD, 1800-1890 AD, 1900-1940 AD); and from Section B-1, 40-50cm <br />carbon was dated 1030±30 BP (Cal 900-920 AD, 960-1040 AD, 1100-1120 AD). <br />Test Trench 2 was laid out parallel to TT 1 and five meters to the east; extending from <br />grid coordinate ON5E northwards to 25N5E and divided into five 5m -long segments and lm - <br />long test units as with TT1. The portions of the trench that were cleared of fill were excavated <br />to the east side of the 5 -East grid line due to vegetative issues and consisted of units B-4, E-1, <br />and E-3. All excavation was conducted in arbitrary l Ocin level and the removed fill was <br />screened through 1/4" mesh hardware cloth. <br />As elsewhere on the site, no evidence of intact cultural layers, features, or activity loci <br />were encountered. Each of the excavated segments of the trench were cleared to the contact <br />with sandstone bedrock—which was intact in places and highly weathered and decomposed in <br />others. This contact ranged from 20cm to 36cm in depth below the present ground surface in <br />various portions of the trench. Sub -surface deposits reflected those found in Auger Tests 17, <br />19, and 20 (Table A-1). Cultural materials in the form of lithic tools and debitage, occasional <br />charcoal fragments, and apparently randomly -dispersed oxidized fragments of sandstone were <br />recovered from each of the above tests. <br />Unit TT2, E-3 was opened in an effort to define the base of the talus slope of the ridge <br />to the north that has been partially removed by the construction of the road cut and pullout, and <br />the north end of the site. Although the southern portion of the unit was similar to elsewhere on <br />the site in terms of deposition and cultural materials, the northern 30-50cm of the unit, <br />beginning at a depth of 31cm—delineated by a clearly-defined depositional contact --consisted <br />of a more compact and blocky sterile fill with densely -spaced, non -tabular, sandstone cobbles <br />and pebbles (elsewhere on the site the sandstone clasts were typically tabular in nature). It is <br />IN <br />