Hello again. I guess once one delurks, it's hard to be quiet. Now that we are on avian burials, I think we've reached a different topic in more ways than one. I also found an avian burial, a genuine turkey, within 4 meters of the pet dog burial I mentioned. For reasons I am not entirely sure of, I think the turkey was probably buried in the 19th century underneath that kitchen we were originally looking for. There must have been an impenetrable barrier around the perimeter of the kitchen that kept dogs or other animals from getting under the kitchen because the whole crawl space was pretty much sterile. I'm thinking the turkey probably caught a disease. Someone, probably a family slave or servant, was sent under the kitchen to bury it specifically where it could not be disturbed by a scavenging animal. The remains were intact except that the head had been removed prior to burial. I couldn't figure out what was going on until I talked to one of the volunteer crew who had grown up on a farm. She said nobody wanted to eat a sick animal so it was not uncommon to kill it and bury it somewhere. And by the way, in the gizzard we found several "gizzard stones" used to grind up food. A couple of these"stones" were actually bits of whiteware and one bit even had a spot of underglaze blue paint left. Perhaps I should actually say we found these gizzard stones in the approximate gizzard area of the remains. No, we didn't do any sort of a scratch test, or even lick them to determine what version of refined earthenware the gizzard sherds might be. That's enough for pets and strange buried intact remains for me, unless you want to hear about the horse burial I found when looking for a cellar hole in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. We didn't dig the whole horse--we stopped when we found four hooves sticking up out of the ground. Turns out the dead horse had been dumped into the cellar hole of an 18th century house, but not until the mid 20th century according to the informant I finally found. Bye. Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy Arkansas Archeological Survey Arkansas Tech University Russellville, AR