Seven separate deposition areas were identified at the West Runway site, based on an examination of horizontal artifact clustering. Artifacts from each area reflected domestic activities: flint knapping, wood and bone working, animal processing, and cooking. Small groups of mobile Native hunter-gatherers apparently had used the site frequently for short periods of time.
Investigators recovered some of the earliest ceramics documented in Kentucky from the West Runway site. Known as Fayette Thick, these thick-walled ceramic vessels (.4 to .9 inches thick) were most likely constructed by coiling. The West Runway Runway examples were made with local clays. Site potters had added fragments of igneous/metamorphic rock (including feldspar, hornblende, and quartz) and grit to the clay, ranging in size from very fine to very coarse, prior to building their vessels. The addition of these materials promoted even firing in open-air fires, ensuring water-tight vessels. Site inhabitants made and used ceramic vessels for cooking and to store their food.
West Runaway also produced a large amount of chipped-stone tool debris and many stone tools. Of particular note was the recovery of 22 Kramer spear points. Kramer points have straight to slightly convex bases, long straight or outward-curving stems (usually making up over one-third the length of the point), prominent shoulders, and triangular blades. Based on intersite comparisions, researchers discovered that, on average, the West Runway flintknappers made their Kramer points 0.6 inches shorter than Kramer points made by knappers in Illinois.
When Native knappers sharpened or repaired chipped stone tools, the tools often became shorter. This difference in spear point length suggested to researchers that most of the West Runway points were shorter than their Illinois counterparts because Native residents at West Runway used their tools for longer periods of time. Resharpening their tools several times before they threw them away produced shorter points.