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wide, and from 1 to 2 feet deep. House Pit 3, a rather irregular 

 depression on the southeast side of House Pit 4, is about 18 feet long, 

 15 feet wide, and is somewhat deeper. It may have been a store- 

 house, smokehouse, or bathhouse associated with a dwelling in House 

 Pit 4, but since no excavations were made in either pit, their functions 

 are unknown. 



House Pit 5 lies between House Pits 1 and 4. It is about 20 feet 

 long (northeast-southwest), 10 feet wide, and 2 feet deep. The 

 small mound southwest of the house may be sand removed in ex- 

 cavating the pit. Neither the house pit nor the mound was excavated. 



House Pit 6 is an indistinct depression about 240 feet west of 

 House Pit 1. It is roughly 30 feet long (northeast-southwest), 18 

 feet wide, and less than 1 foot deep. The slight elevation around 

 the pit may be earth removed from it and refuse from the house built 

 in it. A test hole in the mound revealed only very shallow midden. 



House Pit 7 lies in the forest about 180 feet north of House Pit 1. 

 It is a shallow, indistinct depression, about 50 feet square, bordered 

 on the south and west by Mounds C and D. Test excavations 

 made in Mound C and the house pit (fig. 9), indicate that the latter 

 was dug through the lower levels of the mound. Mound D was 

 abruptly cut off as if it had lain against the wall of the house, although 

 no trace of timbers was found. 



Mound A probably represents the debris from House Pits 3, 4, 

 and 5. Mound B presumably contains the rubbish from Houses 1, 2, 

 and 9, and from House 8 within it, and probably from other houses 

 not yet discovered. Mound C antedates in part the digging of House 

 Pit 7, although the fill of that pit also forms the upper levels of the 

 mound. Mound D seems to represent the trash from House 7. 



Although House Pits 1 and 7 are of approximately the same size, 

 and are the largest at the site, the latter is probably the older. Thus, 

 large trees are growing in it and on Mound C. The artifacts removed 

 from this area, including Mound D, were not very different in type 

 from those found in other parts of the site, except that no specimens 

 of iron were present, although pieces of iron were recovered from 

 Mounds A and B, and from the houses associated with the latter. 

 It is reasonable to assume that the rubbish in Mounds C and D and 

 House Pit 7 came from that house or from other dwellings in the 

 vicinity, rather than from houses nearer the beach, and that this 

 material is the oldest recovered at Old Town. 



The Storage House and the sweat-bath house (House 8), described 

 below, were probably later. They were contemporaneous and were 

 the oldest buildings discovered in Mound B. Since both of these 

 were excavated through the lowest layers of the mound, it is evident 

 that these accumulations of rubbish must have been derived from 



