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Ficure 6.—Floor plan of Feature 1, Star Village site. 
been the purpose here, for this was, presumably, a new house when 
the village was abandoned. These two molds may have held posts 
which supported a horizontal bar from which a robe or blanket was 
hung to serve as a screen and break such drafts as entered through the 
doorway. 
The molds of the 11 posts forming the outer circle stood at an 
average radius of 13.75 feet from the center of the fireplace and well 
beyond the crest of the ring-mound. Posts in this circle carried the 
stringers against which the upper end of the leaners rested, as well 
as carrying one end of the rafters. These posts were unevenly spaced 
at intervals of from 3 to 10 feet apart. Forming a somewhat irregular 
circle at an average distance of about 3 feet beyond the outer circle of 
postmolds were the butts of many small poles and slabs, apparently 
all that remained to mark the position of the leaners which formed the 
inner part of the house wall. 
