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HOUSE PIT 7 

 45-BN-6 



Figure 29.— House pit 7, 45-BN-6. 



and ashes less than 1 inch in thickness. The floors were from 6 inches 

 to 1 foot apart vertically, and each one more or less paralleled the 

 others. The earliest floor had been built on a slight accumulation of 

 trash that included a few animal bones, some charcoal, ashes, and 

 flakes of stone. 



Typical of houses in the McNary region, house pit 7 gave no indi- 

 cation of the kind of superstructure used. There were no postholes 

 or remnants of construction materials. The side of the house nearest 

 the river was slightly lower, indicating a possible entrance there, but 

 there was no substantiating evidence. 



