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8. 2.70-3.00m.
The nature of the deposit continues the same;the artifacts found consist of potshards, animal bones slags, a great number of bone arrow heads, shell ornaments,two fragments of stone implements and one piece of inscribed bone.

9. 3.00-3.30m.
At the depth of 3.05m. there is a layer of what seems to be flood deposit consisting of two sub-strata, one layer of yellow sand, and one layer of loosened brownish earth. Above this stratum, are found, potshards red earth mixed with slags, moulds, inscribed plastrons and bones, incised white pottery; below the stratum, the number of potshards decrease; there are some bone arrowheads and shell implements.

10. 3.30-3.60m.
At the depth of 3.4m. virgin soil of loess begins to appear on the western margin,about 0.80m. wide; the digging of this part is discontinued at this point. On the east, the work is continued, the blackish yellow earth descends way down beyond the depth of 3.50m., some of the layers seem to have been originated from some local flood, but the potshards found in this layer are decidely decreasing in number. The artifacts uncovered from this stratum still consists of slags, stone knives,shell ornaments, turquois, hardstone implements, and bronze moulds. At the depth of 3.60m. iron nail and decayed tissues of wooden coffin begin to appear.

11. 3.60m.---
Greyish yellow earth contains black potshards, many fragments of stone knives, new type of bone arrowhead, fragments of what seem to be jade and shell ornaments; incised white pot shards are found in the black earth right west of the burial. Right on the top of the burial are still found a number of miscellaneous objects such as: oracle bones, arrowheads stone knives inscribed oracle bones and shell or-