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K/tclicii FouiuLitioii 

 Sfiiirtiirc E 



DESCRIPTION OF EXCAVATIONS 



Structure E was a brick foundation, 17 fret by 32 

 li-et, situated at the northwest corner of the enclosure- 

 wall system. Its south wall was continuous with Wall 

 1), which joined it, and was at right angles to Wall E. 

 The latter abutted it in line with an interior founda- 

 tion wall which bisected the structure into two room 

 areas, designated X and Y. Thus it once stood like a 

 bastion extendine; outside the enclosure walls, but 

 remaining integral with them and affording a con- 

 trolled entrance to the enclosure (fig. 46). 



The cast end of Structure E extended under a mod- 

 ern boundary fence to the present edge of the high- 

 way. Ditching of the highway had cut into the founda- 

 tion and exposed the debris and slabs of stone in place, 

 which indeed had provided the first clues to the 

 '•xistence of the structure. Clearance of the easterly 

 nea, Room X, revealed a pavement of roughly 

 rectangular slabs of mixed Aquia-type lime-sand- 

 stone and red sandstone. These slabs were flaked, 

 < rodcd, and discolored, as though they had been ex- 

 posed to great heat. The pavement was not complete, 

 s<jme stones having ajjparently been removed. 

 The scattered locations of the stones remaining ;/; 

 Mill implied that the entire room was originallv 

 paved. 



Hciwcen the northwest corner of Room X and a 

 brick abutment 5 feet to the south was a rectangular 

 area where the clay underlying the room had Ix-en 

 Ijaked to a hard, red, brirklike mass (fig. 49). Wcxxl 

 ash was admixed w ith the cla\ . Ihis was clearly the 



site of a large fireplace, where constant heal froni a 

 now-removed hearth had penetrated the clay. Ex- 

 tending north 3.8 feet beyond the l>ou ' ' ■ room 

 at this point was a U-shaped brick ;■ i:i 4.75 

 feet wide. Near the southeast corner of the room, 

 ju.st outside of the foundation, which it abii" ' - a 

 well-worn red-sandstone doorstep, which . :ic 

 site of the door communicating between Structure E 

 and the interior of the enclosure and. of course, 

 between .Structure E and .Structure B, the disiaiKe 

 between which was l(X) feet. 



Room Y, extending west Ix-yond the corner of the 

 enclosure walls was perhaps an addition to the original 

 structure. The disturbed condition of the bricks 

 where this area joined Room X, howe\er, olwrured 

 any evidence in this re.spect. In the northea.st corner, 

 against the opposite side of the fireplace wall in Room 

 X. was another area of red-burned cl.iv. Lying across 

 this was a long, narrow slab of wrought iron, 34.5 by 

 tj inches (fig. .50). which may have served in some 

 fashion as part of a sto\e or fire frame. In any case, 

 a small fireplace .leems to have been located here. 

 ,\pproximatelv midway in the west wall of Room \, 

 against the exterior, lay a broken slab of red saixl- 

 stone, which ob\iou*lv also srr\-rd as a druirstone. 

 That it had lieen more 



>iophisticate<l purpo^ ,, ,., . f.,t >I 



treatment of the stone, whirl 

 a torus molding along each ' it 



across one end ^lig. 41). .\. <-• 



mained in this room, except for a smouil -tf 



vellow clay which became slick\ when exposed to rain. 



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