EXCAVATIONS AT MAGENS BAY


to that reported by de Booy and by Hatt.
 Results of two stratigraphic tests at Magens Bay, in terms of
the ceramic typology presented earlier, are given in Table 1 by
arbitrary 15 cm. levels. Typical sherds from Test I are illustrated
in Plates II-IV. This test, 3 by 3 meters in area, was excavated
by Bullen and Sleight in April 1960. Test II was dug the preceding
year by the Davises as part of their survey work for the Bryant
Foundation. Being smaller than Test I, it produced fewer sherds.
These tests were separated by a distance of about 2 meters. Both
were dug in the thickest remaining portion of the midden which
here consisted of black dirt, shells and rocks plus food bones and
specimens.
 At the base of the midden in the southwestern quarter of Test
I was a troughlike depression or pit extending downward a maxi-
mum of 40 cm. into the underlying sterile sand. The trough was
30 cm. wide at its northwest end and about 60 cm. wide at its mid
(?) point. It extended diagonally across our tests for 2 meters but
continued beyond our south wall. It (cnt.iiiicd three rocks along
its bottom and was filled with midden deposit undistinguishable
from that of Level 4. We could not detect any pit walls above the
base of Level 4.
 Stone specimens from Test I were a hone in Level 2, a hammer-
stone and a faceted pebble in Level 3, a utilized chip in Level 1 and
four in Level 4, ochreous rocks in Levels 1 and 4, a petaloid celt
(P1. XVI, d) in Level 3, and a long stone bead (P1. XVI, c) at the
base of the midden deposit. In Test II were a petaloid celt and a
pecked stone in Level 1, a rectangular chisel (P1. I, e), five utilized
chips, and a fragment of ochreous rock in Level 2, and a utilized
chip in Level 3.
 No specimens of shell came from Test I but an olive shell bead
and a clam shell scraper were found in Level 2 of Test II. A piece
of worked bone was found in the first level of Test I and a bone
point (P1. I, f) in the second level of Test II. A sherd disc and
a clay spindle whorl (P1. II, a), both of Botany paste, came from
Level 1 of Test I and another spindle whorl from Level 3 of Test
II.
 Along the north wall of Test I at a depth of 40 cm. was found
a headhlcs flexed burial. While the bones were fragmentary, excava-