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lying 025 M. above the floor. The bottom of the passage lay lower 

 than the floor of the house. (Walrus). Here we found among other 

 things an unusually large woman's knife of slate. 



The winter-house 315 was found a couple of meters south of 

 the entrance to house 314. As in the latter the platform was of 

 earth, covered with flat stones. Above the thin stone-flag, w^hich 

 covered the innermost end of the passage, a recess was found 0*25 M. 

 deep, 0-30 M. broad and 025 M. high (fig. 33). The roof of the house 

 had fallen. The bottom of the passage did not lie appreciably lower 



Fig. 33. Front wall in the winter-house 315. East shore of Stormlnigt. 



Seen from the inside. The doorway, the thin, flat covering stone and a recess above the 



latter are shown. P^urther the 2 triangular expansions at the ends of the front wall. 



(Cf. .315 in PI. II). (Photo, by A. Lundagkü). 



than the floor of the house. Between the roofing stones was a piece 

 of a large whale-bone. 



Round these winter-houses, which together formed the southern 

 group, lay scattered many bones (fig. 11). (Hare, polar bear, walrus 

 (many ribs), bearded seal, fjord seal, reindeer (many antlers among 

 them)). 



Between the winter-houses and the beach were not so few 

 permanent meat-depots (316), which had been formed by widening 

 natural holes in the rocks to make sufficient space. 



The winter-house 317 (fig. 1 and fig. 34), which belongs to the 

 northern group, was found ca. 100 meters N. N. W. of the winter- 



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