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Excerpt from Exploration of Aboriginal Sites at Throgs Neck and Clasons Point, New York City: I. The Throgs Neck or Schley Avenue Shellheap; II. Snakapins, a Siwanoy Site at Clasons Point
Pit 3: This pit was 4 ft. 3 in. In diameter by 2 ft. 8 in. Deep. It held large stones, a few shells, two small potsherds, and a few animal bones. The pit resembled a grave from which the body had been removed for reinterment or the bones destroyed by decay.
Pit 4, A and B: A nearly round pit, 4 ft. I in. In diameter by 2 ft. 3 in. Deep. This pit contained only shells and black earth. Cutting into it was Pit 4 B at the southeast. This was 2 ft. Deep and 2 ft. 7 in. In diameter, with the same sparse contents.
Pit 5: This pit, on the hillside below Pits I and 2, was almost round, being 4 ft. 4 in. In diameter, -and 3 ft. I in. Deep. It was filled with dark earth, stones, and a few shells. Among these were a few bones of animals and some potsherds, but at the bottom, which was ?at, were found nearly all the fragments of a pottery vessel of modified Iroquois type (pl. VII, b).
Pit 6: An irregular pit, 5 ft. 11 in. North to south and 3 ft. 3 in. East to west, depth 2 ft. 8 in. It contained many shells, principally scallops, some dog-bones, a few deer-bones, and a broken bone awl.
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