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still more numerous, 100 to every 0.88 C.M., containing incised and reddish potshards. On the northern section, the soil is black and yellowish, with fragments of porcelain and glazed ware. Together are found oracle bones. It is obviously a later intrusion. The measurements of the day are: SE: 1.65-2.30; SW: 1.55-2.30; NE: 1.78-2.30; NW: 1.80-2.30.

April 23/29. Real greyish sandy stratum begins. Bigger fragments of potshards begin to increase. In the southern part, more oracle bones are found. Charcoal increases. About 0.50 meter of soil sifted and taken out.

April 24/29. Grey soil continues. Worked only one turn.

April 26/29. Still grey. Grey potshards and bones are the main contents. Pebbles on the decrease.

April 27/29. Extending eastward, joining Pit SWn in order to study the conditions of the burial found at the northern end of the Pit.

April 29/29. Joining with Pit SWn complete. Downward excavation. Pebbles decrease while charcoal increases. Pot shards still abundant. At NE corner a big flat piece of hard and light material stuck together with rotten wood fibres, marked by red pigments and cloth marks; this is related to the same kind of material found in the next pit and apparently related to the burial. 0.90m. above the bottom on the northern wall(2.80m. from the top, half an incised pot is taken out.

April 30/29. On the south the cultural soil arches into the wall bounded by virgin soil. In this column of cultural soil complete pots are found among which is a washing basin. The eastern section has already reached the bottom. But the western section is still full of cultural contents. Towards evening, the arc is elongated elliptically.

May 1/29. The elliptical depression continues with grey contents, including oracle bones and copper rust. The virgin bottom appears late in the evening.

The history of the excavation of this pit has been given here in great detail, because it serves to illustrate the kind of facts at our disposal from which we have to derive our deductions. It is obvious that the strata were disturbed superficially at the NE corner where at the depth 1.75-2.25m., fragments of porcelain and glazed ware were found side by side with oracle bones. The contact between the