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Details include: a
5x5 ft. “Unit” under excavation as seen from directly
overhead. White level lines for control are strung around
three sides and several are still strung out to corner pedestals of
former Units, now completely removed down to limestone
bedrock. A small sliding line level can be seen on the line
around the Unit in question, and it is being step-excavated with
trowel, dustpan and whiskbroom – all clearly visible in the
picture. Nearby stands a filled spoil bucket –(for scale, a
toothpaste tube cap) - waiting for someone to carry it to the sifter
station and rocker-wash the contents. At extreme upper left,
is a small nested clutch of tiny shells – emulating the
Leucine clam shells often found “nested” together in some
solution pits – and often associated with just one or two potsherds
among them. Whether these were deliberate deposits, or the
work of chance and weather perhaps after site abandonment, has not
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