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7 • The artifact assemblage includes 176 items, of which 34% is plate glass, and 12% is wire nails. No cut nails were found. Nine pieces of debitage, one mono, and one biface fragment make up the lithic assemblage in this area. Probes. The probing effort was all part of the spring, 1997 testing effort. Probes were placed primarily on the northern and eastern side of the Structure 1/Feature 8 complex, though several transects did extend to the south side. Recovery of materials was generally greatest on the northern and eastern sides of Structure 1, and Feature 8 was discovered in one of the probes. Materials from the lithic component were even more confined to the northern portions of the probing effort. The probes produced 357 artifacts, with glass fragments making up the lazgest category at more than 32%. Miscellaneous metal fragments, debitage, and historic ceramics follow in order of abundance. A flake tool is the only other representative of the lithic component. Surface Collection Two different forms of surface collection occurred at the site. The first, what might be considered a designed sample, was simply an effort to collect diagnostic materials and artifacts that were exceptionally pertinent to the reseazch design. The second involved the placement and systematic collection of two collections transects. Designed Sams. Over the course of field work at the site, tools from the lithic component, • worked glass, and other potentially diagnostic artifacts were collected as they were discovered. All items were mapped into the site grid system. Twenty-four such artifacts were recovered (table, Appendix A). These include ]4 pieces of worked glass and one bottle from the historic component; and three bifaces, three pieces of aboriginal ceramics, and three projectile points from the lithic component. Mcst of these were recovered from the azea around Structure 1 and Feature 8, or in the northern trash scatter area. Collection Transects. Two collection transects, each measuring two meters by 50 meters, were placed on either side of Structure 1, and both were placed to cross the area of the site where it appeazs the eazlier artifact dump occurred. The treatment plan had proposed a more intensive and site-wide surface collection strategy, but the degree of vegetation cover encountered upon return to the site in August precluded this over lazge portions of the site. The two collection transects covered a total of 200 square meters, and 2 x 2 m collection grids were used to provenience recovered materials. In parts of the transects where artifacts were not common, all artifacts were collected with the exceptions noted below, and notations made of all building materials, stone, coal, clinker and coke. Scrap wire was not collected except as representative samples, or in instances where it retained some form that might provide clues to its use or function. Scrap sheet metal, including can fragments lacking seams, and probable construction sheet metal (siding or roofing), were not collected. In the western parts of both transecis, artifact densities were quite high, and collection of glass was limited to lazger pieces and pieces that bore diagnostic mazkings or provided some other evidence of function and/or age. Representative samples of all types and colors of glass were • collected