A close-in overhead of the NW quadrant, showing the encircling, trash-littered bank, and along left side, a “walkway” down the trench toward an adjacent cleared area, not shown on the model or in (available) onsite aerial photos. Visibly exposed in the midden face at this spot, I have indicated a hypothetical “shell lens” – such as were encountered elsewhere in the midden, but not actually at this spot. (I chose to put one here solely for its general visibility in the model, and the fact that most such phenomena were encountered in the midden Units inside the Circle, and by this stage of excavation, had all been destroyed).  The “shell lens” consists of whole and broken marine shells and fragments and columellae of whelks, one of which lies horizontal and uppermost in the exposure weathering forth here. Lenses usually mark discrete human activities: campfires, temporary trash pits, eating or feasting spots, caches, and so on. They often contain fragmented animal bones, ashy, greasy earth and clay, and sherds and artifacts.

     The N side basins sweep by just below the bank itself, (for which no carefully “shaved” vertical profile was ever maintained by the Excavators onsite, let alone profiled and drawn in toto, to my certain knowledge anyway) and show some of the peculiar “necked” extensions on many basins in this side of the Circle. Many writers refer to “ovoid” basins but in fact many were not ovoids at all. (Many writers on the site never visited it at all, and got their information by quoting each other…Putting one rather in mind of Churchill who once described the citizens on the Isle of Man, as “…surviving by taking in each other’s wash!”  *grin *).