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In
the SE quadrant of the Circle is an odd mix of natural and
artificial features I myself dubbed the “chaotic zone”. Here the
deepest sounding on site was a karst-like opening with a slanted
wall, the latter containing several small deliberate pits. At the
bottom, a “natural window” (fenestration) opened through to an
adjoining cavity. The major cavity of this zone is shown at lower
left. Just above it is the S end of the backhoe trench scar from
construction activities about fifty years ago. If you look closely,
you can see the bottom remnant of a basin in the scar at left edge –
still containing isolated shell and stone fragments. Large whole and
broken shells and columellae of various marine whelks were
often found in the basins: here a row of them appears just as they
might have when so-laid-out by excavators during actual field work.
The sloping bank rises another two or three feet up the unexcavated
overburden at top and to right. No sharp profile was maintained here
by the Excavators, as the bank was continually collapsed and worn
down by people entering and leaving the excavation in this vicinity.
The surface appears just as it did in the field: strewn with cans
and builders’ trash and rank weeds which grew quickly in the Miami
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