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been floored with wood. The other rooms and the "breezeways" sim- 

 ply had earth floors. Concentrations of burned chinking in general 

 revealed the positions of the walls, and impressions in this material 

 indicated that these walls were composed of logs of eastern red cedar 

 and probably cottonwood. 



The floored room of the southern unit contained a fireplace built 

 of chalkstone, between which and the wall behind it was a clay filling 

 presumably installed to safeguard the wall from fire. Separated from 

 this room by a space 7 feet wide was another room of approximately 

 the same size which, judging from its furnishings and other contents, 

 was a blacksmith shop. Near the north wall was a chalkstone plat- 

 form about 4 by 5 feet in horizontal dimensions and 8 inches high 

 which it is suspected served as the base of a forge. Three feet south 

 of this stood a 9-inch oak post which may have supported an anvil, 

 and on the floor perhaps 4^ feet still farther south were the remains 

 (2 iron hoops and a small amount of charred wood) of a large bar- 

 rel, perhaps to contain water. In addition, the room contained a large 

 quantity of iron stock and a number of fragments of tools and other 

 iron objects. The space between the two rooms was not only roofed 

 but it was also enclosed at the ends by vertical planks whose lower 

 ends were set about 2 inches into narrow trenches. A break in the 

 east wall was probably a doorway. The other double unit was rather 

 less well defined, but it too consisted of two rooms, one of which con- 

 tained a fireplace, separated by a space which had probably been 

 roofed. Here, however, the rooms were separated by approximately 

 19 feet. 



Near this latter structure were the remains of a well marked by a 

 surface depression approximately 10 feet across and 2-| feet deep. It 

 may originally have been somewhat deeper than the 18 feet at which 

 the Garth party was forced to terminate its excavation because of the 

 movement of sand and water into the hole. Below a point 12 feet 

 from the surface, the well was cribbed with split oak logs, notched 

 at the ends. It was from here that many of the better-preserved 

 artifacts were recovered. These included 58 ice gliders and a number 

 of shoes. The one other feature excavated in the site was a cellar, 

 the architectural details of which were rather obscure and from which 

 few artifacts were recovered. 



The site yielded artifacts only in moderate quantities. Items that 

 appear to be specifically of military origin are a few .50-.70 caliber, 

 center-fire cartridges of the type used by the United States Army in 

 the i86o's and 1870's and a fragment of a hat insigne of brass. Other 

 objects of White manufacture include sections of an octagonal rifle 



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