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Subsurface Pit 15 — see Storage House (below) 

 Subsurface Pit 23 {lower levels) : 



Broken bird bone point (211) 

 Subsurface Pit 24 — see House 8 (below) 

 Subsurface Pit 31 (lower levels) : 



Tooth chisel, pi. 16, c 

 Subsurface Pit 32 {lower levels) : 



Drift iron adz or scraper blade, pi. 4, k 

 Subsurface Pit 36 {small cache house) {loioer levels) : 



Small woodworking tool, pi. 7, m 



2 whetstones, pi. 10, e (and 377) 



Unbarbed bone arrowhead, pi. 15, v 



Bone shaft fragment (398) 



Cut wood (385) 

 Subsurface Pit 37 (lower levels) : 



Hammerstone-abrader, pi. 10, / 



Toy lamp (394) 

 Subsurface Pit 39 (lower levels) : 



Cut wood (692) 



THE STORAGE HOUSE 



One of the oldest plank-lined cache pits uncovered during the exca- 

 vation of Mound B was a structure in the southwestern portion of 

 the mound (see fig, 2). It was probably a storage house that had been 

 burned down by a fire that started at its southern end and which con- 

 sumed all but the floor planks and the lower ends of the wall planks. 



The Storage House (originally designated as "Subsurface Pit 15") 

 was 7 feet 9 inches long and 4 feet 6 inches wide. It had been built 

 in a pit, sunk about 18 inches into the sterile sand below the midden. 

 The floor level was between 3K and 4K feet below the present uneven 

 surface of the mound. Above the remains of the house were about 

 2K feet of undisturbed stratified deposit, consisting of black rocky 

 midden, shell midden, and gray sandy midden belonging to the upper 

 levels of Mound B. The fill inside the house, belonging to the lower 

 levels, consisted of a fairly homogeneous deposit of stained sand, char- 

 coal fragments including remains of the wall and roof, fire-cracked 

 rocks, ash, and bits of charred bone. There were small lenses of clean 

 sand in the fill, and about 3 inches above the floor planks was a thin 

 layer of light-gray sand. Below the floor planks were 1 to 3 inches of 

 midden that had probably sifted under and between the boards; at 

 the south end this deposit deepened into the fill of Subsurface Pit 38. 

 The latter contained brown midden, rotted bark, bits of charcoal, 

 bone, shell, and fire-cracked rocks. This stratigraphy may suggest 

 that the pit was older than the Storage House, but it may be simply 

 a cellar. 



The waUs of the house were of roughly split planks, 4 to 22 inches 

 wide and about 1 inch thick, which with two exceptions were set verti- 

 cally in the sand at the bottom of the pit to an average depth of 10 



