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apparently related to the burial. On the northern wall, 2.80 m. from the top, was found half an incised pot.

April 30/'29 In the southern section, the cultural soil arches into the wall, bounded by virgin soil. Complete pots are found in this colum of cultural soil. Eastern part, already reached the bottom. Western part still full of cultural contents. Arc elongated elliptically towards the evening. 

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

I have given the history of the excavation of this pit in great detail, because it serves to illustrate the kind of fact at our disposal from which our deductions are [[strikethrough]] based [[/strikethrough]] derived. It is obvious that the stratification of this pit (Figs. 1-4) was superficially disturbed at NE corner where at the depth of 1.75-2.25 m., fragments of porcelain and glazed ware were found side by side with oracle bones. The contact between the the cultural and the surface layer in this part is accordingly also more obscure. This is, however, only an instance of isolatory intrusion; the contents of the cultural strata of this pit remain remarkably uniform., In the adjscent pit (WSn Fig.5), where the contact between the surface and the cultural layer is definitely intact, the contents of the grey stratum are exactly similar, except that they are free from the presence of ceramics of the later period. This section may be taken as typical of the undisturbed region, which is relatively rare in the central digging (CF. Fig. 1-4)

But the most typical and important of a well preseved pit is that of S2 and S2Bn where the greatest number of inscribed bones were uncovered. Here the surface stratum is between 50 cm. and 70 cm. thick [[strikethrough]] beneat [[/strikethrough]] beneath which was found a layer of loessy soil, rather sticky and hard to break, mixed with fine gravels and saturated with inscribed bones. A great deal of broken shards and animal bones were also found in this layer. It attained a thickness between 1 and 1.50 meter, interbedded at several point by soft ashy matter and abundant charcoal. Inscribed bones were found more in the upper part of this stratum; but most of these were badly attacked by worms, in consequence of which, many of the inscribed characters have become utterly unreadable. The lower part was darker and softer, also contained more pot-shards. Downwardly the soil became greyer, then it was