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member and an outer foundation post. They may represent one end 
of a horse corral within the lodge. A mold near the southwest center- 
post may have held a crane post or a wooden mortar. 
Shallow molds beyond the outer circle indicated the location of 
the leaners. These stood at a distance of from only 8 to 14 inches 
from the outer post ring, which would indicate walls much more 
vertical than was the case at the other house remains excavated, pro- 
vided that the outer foundation posts were of the same height. These 
molds indicate an inside diameter of about 36 feet for this house. 
The fireplace was a rather large, but shallow, basin-shaped pit. 
It measured 30 inches in diameter and 4 inches in depth. White ash 
filled it to the floor level. 
The entranceway, with its long axis southwest-northeast, opened 
toward the center of the village and was framed by a pair of posts 
at each end, the inner pair, as usual, forming part of the outer circle 
of support posts. It was from 4.0 to 4.5 feet in width and between 
8.0 and 9.0 feet in length. Artifacts were rather more plentiful at 
Feature 8 than at the other houses excavated. A tincup was found 
on the floor southeast of the fireplace. North of the fireplace was 
the bottom of a green glass pocket flask, and other fragments of 
glass were scattered about the floor. Three sheet-iron “jingles” lay 
on the floor 8 feet southeast of the fireplace. Other objects from this 
excavation consist of sherds of Staffordshire earthenware, several 
iron objects, and a few pieces of worked stone. 
Feature 12 (fig. 10; pl. 16,6) —Located at the west side of the open 
space in the center of the site was the largest of the earthen ring- 
mounds. This marked the site of what was, reputedly, the ceremonial 
lodge. Since it has been described and discussed in detail in another 
place (Metcalf, 1962), only a summary description will be given here. 
It was circular in outline and between 75 to 77 feet in diameter. 
Molds of the four posts forming the central foundation formed the 
corners of an area about 20 feet square, with the rear pair about 2 feet 
further apart than those in front. Twenty postmolds formed an ir- 
regular circle about these at a radius of from 25 to 88 feet from the 
center of the central area, those in the front of the lodge being the 
closest. Ata distance of from 5 to 11 feet beyond these was a shallow, 
narrow trench, 6 to 8 inches in width and the same in depth, which 
yielded many bits of decayed wood, presumably the butts of the 
leaners. The entranceway, between 6 and 7 feet in width and 12 
feet in length, was on the east side of the lodge and oriented east- 
west, opening upon the open space in the center of the village. No 
