[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 33 The Bulletin equally across classes and elements, indicating accidental burning. Butchery marks were essentially absent on wild animal bones, and rodent or carnivore marks were uncommon. An unexplained rust-colored stain was found on a number of bones from throughout the shell deposit (Whyte 1994). The greatly fragmented bone and shell appear to be due to aboriginal activities or due to the act of excavating, not to post depositional activities on the site. If the collection of oyster was for immediate consumption as food, then it clearly overshadowed the dietary contribution of vertebrates. persistently young radiocarbon dates on charcoal from this site. This degraded condition was the case disproportionately in the lower levels, again biasing the sample pool toward more modern or completely modem specimens. All samples submitted from lower than 40 cm were unidentifiable. Chestnut was found in a clearly historic deposit (Square 1 Col. 7 Level 3). From the upper 20 cm of the recently excavated squares, a general level of topsoil/shell mix containing historic and prehistoric artifacts, came charred samples of Eastern Hemlock, White Pine, Red Oak, Red Maple, Eastern Hophornbeam, American Hornbeam, cherry, and Tamarack, and uncarbonized pieces of cherry, hickory nut shell, maple, and Northern White Cedar. From 20 to 30 cm deep, the shell deposit proper in the northwestern area of the site, came spruce, White Pine, and partially carbonized Eastern Hemlock.