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     An oblique, elevated view showing the entire Circle above a hypothetical N/S profile along the W edge of the model block. Designations largely as covered in previous caption profiles; the opening in foreground is the “sectioned” entry to the “West Trench Extension” as I have called it. At far rear, is the corresponding entry to the “East Trench Extension.”  Note they do not “line up” as erroneously shown by some investigators, notably Wheeler (Florida Anthropologist, Dec. 2000).  The model also shows the tiny  “nipples” or protuberances at bottom of the (suggested) cross-sectioned solution pits.  Similar nipples  quickly form when one tries to “peck” an artificial hole into the limestone, using a shell spud as did the Indians…