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was about 1 foot higher than its southern end. This was not a true 

 hearth for cooking, but a depository of sweat-bath rocks. Possibly this 

 feature was associated with the intrusive postholes and pole holes 1 to 6. 

 If so, the later structure may have contained a place for sweat bathing, 

 but was probably more than a bathhouse, since some of the intrusive 

 holes were intended for larger posts than would be expected in a 

 bathhouse. 



TEST PITS 



Two intrusive pits (Q and S) were evidently dug from the present 

 surface of the ground or near it. The first is evidently a test pit dug 

 in 1949, and the latter, which destroyed part of a floor plank (D), 

 may also have been made at that time, although unfortunately 

 incomplete records were kept. No carbonized floor planks or other 

 timbers were found in Test Pit Q, nor in the surrounding area, 

 excavated in 1953, which would indicate that this part of the floor of 

 House 9 was not covered with boards. 



The following objects were associated with House 9, and belong to 

 the upper levels of Mound B. 



Below the floor: 



Drift iron blade for crooked knife, pi. 4, h 



Fragment of grinding slab (1004) 



Stone lamp (892) 

 On the floor: 



Slate scraper (?) (674) 



Broken slate blade for arrow (?) (882) 



Toy bow (?), fig. 16, h 



Coal bead (868) 



4 pieces of cut wood, fig. 24, / (and 659, 998, 1001) 



Piece of cut bark (898) 

 Outside the walls, hut within the pit for House 9: 



Copper arrowhead, pi. 14, e 



Cut wood (897) 

 Just above floor: 



Small woodworking tool, pi. 8, m 



Hammerstone (854) 



Rubbed stone (955) 



Piece of copper (878) 



Drift iron nail (895) 



Wooden box bottom with copper nails, fig. 23, c 



Barbed wooden arrow, fig. 15, a 



Wooden shaft fragment (899) 



Unfinished coal bead (932) 



2 wooden chips (794, 795) 



Piece of cut bark (926) 

 Fill of House 9: 



7 hammerstones (648, 650, 750, 853, 857, 935, 937) 



4 stones with red paint (635, 942 to 944) 



Drift iron nail, pi. 4, c 



