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 Figure 3. — Plan of House 8. Drawn by Donald F. McGeein. 



inches above the floor. These charred remams were eventually 

 buried under midden deposits 2 to 4 feet deep. The stratigraphy of 

 the mound (see X-Y on the profile of the south face of Trench 51, fig. 

 5) shows that the house had been built during the early history of 

 this part of the site; the unbroken layers above the fill attest its 

 relatively great age. 



WALLS 



The walls of House 8 were of planks spht from straight-grained wood 

 that was free of knots, probably spruce. They were not smoothed on 

 the surfaces. They varied in width from 1 to 2% feet and in thickness 

 from about )^ to over IJ^ inches. When the house was burned, the 

 upper parts of the walls fell into the house; no wall fragments were 

 found outside. 



The plan (fig. 3) shows that a number of wall planks were missing. 

 Possibly these had been salvaged after the fire. The gap in the 



