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• interpretation of Feature 4-3 as a hearth (Hearth 5 on b7ap 3) is hardly <br /> questionable. When considered along with its surrounding cobble layer <br /> (located to the east of the feature and on the opposite, south, side of <br /> the trench), Feature 4-3 can jwtifiably be advanced as the typical <br /> example of the excavated features so far discussed. That this feature <br /> contained afire for sane length of titre is attested by the fire-reddened <br /> slabs, the extremely blackened dirt within the interior, and the only <br /> slightly less blackened matrix immediately outside. A profile drawing <br /> was made of both the north wall and the south wall of the unit at the <br /> oanpletion of excavations to the 40 an level (Appendix: Figures 27 and <br /> 28). Photographs were taken of both profiles (Appendix: Figures 26 and <br /> 29) after the contents of Feature 4-3 were remved. A number of pollen <br /> samples were obtained fran the north wall profile and from the interior <br /> of the feature. Although large piecos of charcoal were not visible, a <br /> sample of fire-blackened earth was ramved for radianetric dating pur- <br /> poses fran the interior of Feature 4-3. <br />• F~ <br />d <br />ti <br />i <br />5 <br />Th <br />f <br />i <br />l <br />i <br />f <br />i <br /> ccava <br />on Un <br />t <br />. <br />e ex <br />stence o <br />a c <br />rcu <br />ar concentrat <br />on o <br />san <br />stone <br /> rocks in the middle of a two-tracked dirt mad necessitated the excavation <br /> of this apparent cultural feature to determine its nature before it is <br /> further impacted. A 2 x 1 m size unit was placed over, and enclosing, <br /> this feature and the entire area outside of the rocks was excavated to a <br /> depth of 10 an below PGS (P.ppendix: Figures 30 and 31)• A total of 0.10 <br /> cubic meters of dirt was removed fran those areas to the east and west of <br /> the rock con~r:tration. No artifacts whatsoever were observed or <br /> collected on the surface or in the 10 an of material excavated. For this <br /> reason, plus the fact that the constituent rocks of the concentration did <br /> not, for the most part, continue any deeper than 10 an, nor did they show <br /> any evidence of burning (fire-cracking or -reddening), this concentration <br /> is interpreted as being non-cultural. <br /> F7ccavation Unit 6. This 2 x 1 m unit was opened to the east of EU2, thus <br /> extending the size of EUL to an area of 3 meters x 2 meters and further <br />• exposing features recognized on the extreme eastern side of EU2. This <br />33 <br />