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thin, fiai stones. In the house a large slate-knife was found, as also 

 a number of wooden rafters which had perhaps been used "in the 

 construction of the roof. (Polar bear, fjord seal and reindeer (antlers 

 and bones)). 



Winter-house 524 was practically joined on to the house 523; 

 the interior was almost completely taken up by the platform, which 

 also consisted here of gravel, covered with flat stones. The plat- 

 form graduated evenly, without any appreciable edge, over into the 

 likewise stone-covered floorplace, which again continued in an even 

 slope down towards the bottom of the passage, the outer end of 



Fig. 43. Lamp-place in л\чп1ег-110115е Г)23. Rj'pefjeldet. 

 Seen from ;ibove from the N.AV. corner of the liouse, (C.f. .523 in PI. П). 

 Tlie lamp-place is seen in tlie middle of the i)icture. (Photo, by the author). 



which lay 030 M. lower than the ground about it. In the east 

 wall of the house was a small room opposite the middle of the 

 platform. This room was well built with stones compactly placed; 

 its bottom lay 30 M. lower than the platform. The opening into 

 the room from the platform was but low and has not reached quite 

 up to the roof. On the bottom we found skins and hair (of bear 

 and hare) which were fairly fresh and stinking with urine. Against 

 the same wall, close to the front edge of the platform, was a lamp- 

 place. Wood was found in the house. This winter-house was exceed- 

 ingly well-preserved when found by Mylius-Erichsen; it was drawn 

 by AcHTON Friis (fig. 44). (Hare, fjord seal, reindeer (including some 

 antlers)). 



