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These latter posts form an irregular square 7 to 8 feet on a side. In 

 this instance, however, the corners of the square are formed by three 

 postholes rather than by a single post. These posts were much larger 

 and deeper than any of the remaining auxiliary posts in the floor. 

 Center posts of both sets were 0.6 to 1.2 feet in diameter, and 1.5 to 

 2.0 feet deep. 



Five bell-shaped pits were in the house floor. One of them, Fea- 

 ture 10, partly intersects Feature 11, another bell-shaped pit. Fea- 

 tures 14 and 15 are in the house wall line ; the latter pit, which is bell 

 shaped, has an orifice shaped like the figure 8. 



Two of the five small circular to oval pits with shallow U-shaped 

 cross sections intersected the wall line. These and the remaining pits 

 contained refuse and charcoal. The pit in the wall opposite the en- 

 trance. Feature 103, may have had a special function, since it is in a 

 position analogous to that occupied by ceremonial altars in certain 

 historic earth lodges. 



House 2 {map 11^ pi. 7, a). — This house was in excavation 5 in the 

 north central part of the site. The structure was the simplest in plan 

 of those excavated, although its pattern is complicated by the prob- 

 able presence of a second structure. The house consists of a rouglily 

 circular basin-shaped depression 22 feet in diameter, and about 2 feet 

 deep in its center. The entrance faced the southwest, and was marked 

 by two short rows of three posts each, separated by a distance of 4 

 feet. The posts extended only 3 feet out from the house wall, and per- 

 haps the rest of the passage was not located ; rodent disturbance in this 

 area made the definition of features difficult. 



A basin-shaped fireplace, 2.6 feet wide and 0.4 foot deep, was in the 

 house center. Around this hearth were four large supporting posts 

 in the form of an irregular square 8 feet on a side. These posts aver- 

 aged 0.9 foot wide and 1.6 feet deep. 



Three bell-shaped pits were in the house. One of these. Feature 

 23A, had a smaller bell-shaped pit in its floor ; Feature 21 partly un- 

 dercut the northwest wall line; and Feature 20 was in the southeast 

 part of the floor near the house wall, adjacent to an irregular, basin- 

 shaped trash pit. Feature 112. Two circular, basin-shaped pits were in 

 the house. One of them. Feature 24, was in the house wall opposite 

 the entrance, in a position analogous to that of Feature 103 in House 

 1. The other pit, Feature 18, was between the two center posts facing 

 the entrance; it contained several artifacts. Two shattered pottery 

 vessels were near the north wall, opposite the entrance. Both of them 

 were smashed flat, and must have been broken by the weight of the 

 collapsed roof. One of them contained charred fragments of animal 

 bone. Vessel 1 was restored (pi. 14, a). 



Feature 22 was a fireplace in the southwest house wall line. It had 

 a series of seven posts set about it, approximately in the form of a 



