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• here, and a shovel probe was excavated into the outhouse pit through the bottom of one of the excavation units. The upper part of Feature 10 is a large, shallow basin, filled with chazcoal and little else (very little soil, no ash). The basin itself has a distinct oxidation rind, indicating that something was burned there, but the chazcoal found in the basin appears to have been dumped from somewhere else. Some artifacts included within the chazcoal aze unburned. The wood that was burned was from a structure; some is cleazly milled lumber. Nails aze common and have been burned, some fused by rust into the charcoal. Many of nails aze bent, suggesting a structure which was dismantled prior to burning, rather than burned standing in place. Below this basin aze relatively clean, but definitely disturbed sediments, which overly the outhouse pit. No attempt was made to excavate the entire pit. Instead, a shovel probe was extended for about a meter into it, reaching what appears to be a point neaz the bottom. The number and type of artifacts found were disappointing, though it is clear that this outhouse pit post-dates the turn of the century and thus does not represent the earliest occupation of the site. The artifacts recovered in Feature 10 include 425 items, of which only 22% come from the outhouse pit itself. Of the 92 pit artifacts, 72 aze vessel glass fragments and most of these aze from a single one gallon jaz that was broken during excavation. Nine of 12 bones or bone fragments come from the outhouse pit, and most notable among these are several chicken lower leg bones, representing more than one individual. One of the bones is from a rooster, retaining the ossified root • of the spur. Artifacts from above the outhouse pit aze neazly all from the charcoal-filled basin, and are mostly nails. Of 149 nails, only one is a cut nail. Forty-seven pieces of newspaper or magazine were found. One piece of debitage is the only representative of the lithic component from this azea. Northern Test Pits. The northern test pits include Test Pits 1, 4, 6 and 8 from the spring, 1997 testing effort. No new excavations were conducted here. These test pits aze located in places to the north and east of the Structure 1/Feature 8 complex, and aze, with the exception of Test Pit 1, within the azea of densest surface artifacts. Two hundred forty-nine artifacts were recovered in these excavations (table, Appendix A). Almost 50% of these aze glass fragments. Bone fragments, historic ceramics, and debitage make up the next most common categories. One piece of aboriginal ceramics, three ground stone fragments or tools, and one flake tool aze the balance of the lithic component materials in this azea. Southern Test Pits. The southern test pits include Test Pit 2 from the spring, 1997 testing effort, and three additional 1 sq m excavations from the data recovery phase. The treatment plan proposed one or several squaze meters of excavation at several suspected features in this azea. These excavations failed to produce any evidence of structures. Structures that might have been present, and that were reported to exist by Alphonso Trujillo, may not have been sufficiently substantial to have left indication, especially if they were purposefully moved, removed or destroyed. Artifacts recovered in these excavations were also fairly few in number and generally from shallow contexts.