Eleven blocks were excavated at 38HR475 and 38HR476, totaling 296 m2. We excavated seven large blocks at 38HR476. Blocks 1 and 2 were excavated by hand, proceeding in 10 cm level increments. In Block 3, the A horizon was hand stripped until shell midden contexts were encountered at approximately 15-20 cm below surface. Successive levels were excavated in 10 cm increments. In Blocks 4-7, the A horizon was stripped away (including the shell midden zone) to reveal features present under and around the midden areas.
Four blocks were excavated at 38HR476. Blocks 1 and 2 were manually excavated in 10 cm levels. A backhoe was used to scrape away the A horizon 
in Blocks 3 and 4. Selected 1 by 2 meter units in these machine scraped blocks were hand excavated (in 10 cm increments) to determine if deeper deposits were present. In Block 3 at 38HR476 number of Thom’s Creek Punctate sherds (possibly from a single vessel) were collected from below the Woodland contexts, suggesting a buried Ceramic Late Archaic zone, but evidence of intact midden or features was not found. Click here for a table summarizing the block excavations at 38HR475 & 38HR476.
A total of 44 features was examined at 38HR475 and 38HR476, most of which represent intact cultural contexts. Unfortunately, none of these features definitively identify structure areas. Shell middens, pottery clusters, and pit features provided ample contexts for the collection of soil and artifact samples for a variety of specialized analyses (radiocarbon dating, faunal analysis, ethnobotanical analysis, pollen analysis, textile analyses). Click here for a table summarizing features from 38HR475 & 38HR476.
