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interest as other trenches within the vicinity yielded cultural • <br />artifacts from th.e fill as the backdirt piles were subjected <br />to rain washing. <br />As Test 5 proved to be the most culturally productive <br />excavation area, it became the focus of intensified trenching <br />activity. A total of four trenches were placed within this area, <br />numbers 1, 4, 5, and 6 (Map 2). Trench I contained <br />stratified cultural material. The soils within this trench <br />was predominantly silt loam gradating into silt clay loam and <br />subsequently based by a clay loam. Coloration is generally <br />darker than other areas of the site, dominating in dark shades <br />of gray, blending into the black soil associated with feature <br />and to the darker brown shades terminated by the sandstone. <br />bedrock. • <br />Maximum deposition within this trench and the site was <br />1.50 meters. A total of five cultural features, preliminarily <br />identified as hearths, were located within the walls and fill <br />regions of the trench. The uppermost portion of each feature <br />fell within a close range of the .50 meters below surface indi- <br />cating a possible consistency in period occupation/utilization <br />of the site. Minimal screening of the fill resulted in the <br />identification of artifactual material. Numerous lithic debitage <br />pieces and one biface midsection were identified on the surface <br />of the fill piles after rainfall. The biface fragment exhibits <br />parallel flaking, a biconvex cross-section, and a material <br />r1 <br />U <br />16 <br />