306 Chr. Bendix Thostrup 



west wall on the front edge of the platform. The small annex 

 immediately in front of the lamp-place — like the small room in 

 house 524 — has not been so high as the house-space itself, as is 

 usually the case with these small additions. (Fjord seal, reindeer). 



Close to this house to the east lay winter-house 528. The edge 

 of the platform was vertical and composed of stones; the platform 

 was formed of sand and covered with flat stones. The floor was 

 likewise covered with flat stones, under which came a layer of sand 

 above the surface of the ground. From the edge of the platform 

 the floor sloped steeply down towards the bottom of the passage. 

 The lamp-place has been on the front edge of the platform, at the 

 east wall of the house. The roof of the house has been ca. 060 

 M. higher than the platform. (Hare, polar bear, fjord seal, reindeer 

 (including many antlers, some of which had been cast naturally)). 



On one of the small islands in the delta of Gravelven we found 

 a grave (529); it was well-built of large and small stones, but the 

 covering stones had now in part fallen down into the grave. A 

 large, specially cut piece of wood (European or Siberian tiller) had 

 been used as support of some of the covering stones. The long 

 axis of the grave lay east-west; its dimensions were: length 142 — 

 1-55 M., breadth 038 M. at the west end, 067 M. over the middle 

 and 045 M. at the east end; the height was 045 — 050 M. The 

 average thickness of the walls was ca. 0*75 M. Grass was now 

 growing inside the grave and one could see that animals had 

 disturbed the position of the body, as the parts of the skeleton lay 

 in great disorder. They lay in coarse sand, whilst the bottom of 

 the grave consisted of the natural gravel of the place. Grave articles 

 (2 woman's knives, several awls, needle-case etc.) were found partly 

 in the grave, partly among its stones and partly in a receptacle 

 close by (530). This receptacle was О'ЗО M. in diameter and 030 M. 

 high and had fine gravel in the bottom, and the extremely well- 

 preserved grave-articles were found here under a poor stone-covering. 



A second receptacle (531) was found 2^2 meters S. E. of the 

 grave, but contained onl}^ a couple of pieces of wood. 



The 3 traps, already mentioned by Mylius-Erichsen, had un- 

 doubtedly been set up after the burial in the bed of the river. 

 They were found close to the east of the river, built on gravel. 

 Their dimensions are given in the table p. 307. 



Close to the back wall of the last trap (534) we found a small 

 stone-structure resembling a permanent meat-depot (535) and 0*30 

 M. long, broad and high. It was open and the flat covering 

 stones lay beside it; it has contained dog-flesh. This is the only 

 case of a trap being in such immediate connection with a meat- 



