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diameter, indicated the position of the outer posts. This circle is not 
at all satisfactory, and it is possible that some molds were not dis- 
covered and that the lodge had 15 posts in the outer ring with an 
additional pair framing the inner end of the entrance. 
The entrance portico was indicated by a single pair of postholes at 
the outer end. Two posts of the outer ring of foundation posts may 
have served to frame the inner end of the entranceway, as seems to 
have been the case with the two structures previously excavated. 
The two outer molds indicate a northwest opening entrance 4.5 feet in 
width and 7.0 feet in length, with the long axis northwest-southeast 
at a right angle to that of the central area about the hearth. Like the 
others it opened toward the clear space or plaza in the center of the 
site. Evidence of wall leaners was very scanty, but the few found 
stood at from 380 to 88 inches beyond the secondary circle of postmolds, 
which gives a diameter of about 37 feet for the house. 
Supernumerary postmolds were present in the floor as were the 
small molds left by rods 1 to 2 inches in diameter, but neither was 
as common here as at Features 1 and 8. Two of the larger molds 
which were placed in such fashion as to suggest a six-post central 
foundation may have served as crane posts to support a pole above 
the fire. 
Two pieces of nondescript worked stone, four iron nails, a broken 
iron knife, a fragment of glass, and a trade bead were the only 
artifacts recovered. 
Feature 8 (fig. 9; pl. 16, 2) —The fourth house floor to be excavated 
was located in the outer row of house rings, in the northeast part of the 
site. The ring-mound which indicated its presence was somewhat 
bigher than was the case with the three previously excavated and the 
floor line was easier to follow, owing to the quantity of badly decayed 
bark and wood which lay upon it. This was particularly true of the 
east half. Some sections of timbers found there were of good length 
and were, presumably, the remains of rafters. 
The four postmolds of the central foundation posts stood at the 
corners of a rectangular area which measured between 10 and 11 feet 
across the short axis, southwest—northeast, parallel with the long axis 
of the entrance portico. The central area measured 12.5 feet in width 
across the front and just under 15 feet across the back, the northeast 
centerpost being far out of line. The fireplace, which was in the 
center of the floor, was not in the center of the area delimited by the 
centerposts, being behind and to one side of that point. 
Twelve postmolds, irregularly spaced, at distances of from 15 to 
17.6 feet, but with most of them occurring rather uniformly at between 
