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SCALE IN FEET 
Figure 8.—Floor plan of Feature 5, Star Village site. 
man’s store. Here is where battle started. Bull Neck [informant] 
could not give white trader’s name.” 
The well-marked ring-mound measured 38 feet in diameter from 
crest to crest. Removal of the fill, which nowhere exceeded 10 inches 
in depth, revealed the usual pattern of a central fireplace and holes 
for four central foundation posts surrounded by a secondary post ring. 
The circular fireplace was smaller than usual, measuring just under 2 
feet in diameter and 5 inches in depth. The sides were concave, and 
the flat bottom was 10 inches across. The four center posts had stood 
at a radius of from 7 to 8 feet from the center of the fireplace, forming 
the corners of a markedly rectangular area which measured 13 by 
7.5 feet, with the long axis northeast-southwest. 
Sixteen irregularly spaced molds at a radius of from 14 to 17.5 feet 
from the center of the hearth, and forming a circle about 31 feet in 
