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fragment of the stone knife from the surface layer are not of recent origin and were evidently removed from other places; (2) The stratum from the depth of 0.87 m. ^[[to]] that of 2.10 m. are all brownish, its physical composition very dense.  It was so hard and difficult  to break that a number of stout spades were broken in uncovering this layer.  Nothing except a few slags and a piece of carved sandstone were found from this stratum; not even a single potshard. (3) From 2.10 m. to 2.65 m. the soil gets black, but it is still hard to break, it gained in its composition some sandy deposit; burned clay fragments are more abundant, and potshards also begin to appear. (4) The cultural stratum completely appears below 2.65 m., and the potshards also become more abundant. (5) At the depth of 3.30 m. the virgin bottom made of loess appears and a circular pit filled with black deposit appears in this circular pit are found artifacts quite resembling to those found above, including the inscribed oracle bone.  The cultural deposit continues to [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] seven^[[th]] meter deep, where the bottom is still not yet reached.

In comparing the records of these two pits, we may see immediately some pronounced differences.  First let us consider the vertical distribution of the potshards, in pit(Lo. 2ab Bw), they are all concentrated in the lowest stratum, covered by half a meter of hard black soil and further superimposed by another meter of hard brownish deposit.  This hard brownish layer without any artifact, is not found in the deposit above the burial of Po Jen.  However, it may be readily inferred that before the burial took place, the original stratification of the deposit at the place was probably quite similar to what we found  in pit(La. 13c B2wBw), in other words, it must also have contained a layer of contentless brownish and black soil, hard and tough.  Such a layer was entirely  turned over in the early 7th century A.D., when the ground was broken for this burial.  This cutting was continued way