TESTS AT TURTLE POINT


 Before we arrived, much of the site had been bulldozed prepara-
 tory to development. Now it is covered by a large house and a
 paved driveway. Consequently, our work was in the nature of a
 salvage operation. We appreciate the graciously granted permission
 of the Caneel Bay Plantation to do this work.
 Henry A. Fafalla, superintendent of grounds at the Caneel Bay
 Plantation, made a collection at the Turtle Point site when it was
 bulldozed. His collection includes a Strombus gigas celt, two peta-
 loid stone celts, a large stone bead, and part of a Botany Handled
 vessel.
 We made a surface collection and a series of small tests de-
signed to find a location where there was some appreciable depth
to the remaining cultural deposit. Hatt probably dug at and near
the center of the site. There the bulldozer had scraped down to the
underlying rock and pushed cultural material over the cliff into
the ocean where it was washing away.
 Only in one place, to the southwest where there was a natural
hollow, were we able to find any substantial depth to the cultural
deposit and there it ended on hard, sterile clay at a depth of 40
cm. This Test, Test III, was enlarged to 3.5 by 3.5 meters. Here
the deposit was in the nature of a slope midden. Eight meters fur-
ther to the south all evidence of the midden ended.
 In Table 2 will be found an analysis of our ceramic collection
and the vertical distribution of sherds from Test III by 15 cm, levels.
The pottery is also illustrated by these levels in Plates V-VII and
other artifacts, similarly, in Plate VIII. Results of Test I, 1.5 by
1.5 meters in size and with a depth of only 22 cm., have also been
included in Table 2. Specimens from other tests have been included
in the totals given for the surface collection. From the surface we
also collected one large and four small petaloid celts, three celt
fragments, and part of a stone mortar.
 Table 2 and the illustrations (Pls. V-VIII) indicate very little
typological change with depth. In terms of the Magens Bay se-
quence, the site was occupied in Magens IIB and early IIC times.
The "early" part of the IIC period is suggested because of the
presence of Botany Adorned, subtype 1, but no representative of
subtypes 3 or 4.
 Presence of the distinctive Bay Inner Lip Incised (Pls. VI, a;