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varying from 0.25 to 0.4 foot in diameter, presumably represented a parti- 
tion, and one extra post in the inner ring of posts, measuring 0.7 foot in 
diameter, in the northeast quadrant, and one extra post in the center 
ring of posts, measuring 0.35 foot in diameter, in the southeast quadrant, 
may have been brace or auxiliary roof-support posts. 
Entrance: Opening on the southeast. Long entryway or vestibule marked 
by 2 nearly parallel rows of 17 unevenly spaced posts, 9 on one side and 
8 on the other, ranging from 0.3 to 0.4 foot in diameter, with the rows 
spaced from 4.0 to 4.4 feet apart and extending some 12.0 feet south 
of the entrance and terminating in what appeared to be a partially 
exposed circular house (undesignated), described below. 
Floor: Nearly flat, tramped bottom of pit mantled sparingly with refuse. 
Fireplace: Single, off-center, circular basin (F26) measuring 1.65 feet in 
diameter and 0.8 foot in maximum depth, filled with a mixture of gray 
ash and sand, but lacking artifact and refuse materials. 
Subfloor cache pits: Two pocket cache pits, one in the northeast quadrant 
(F28), measuring 1.2 feet in maximum diameter and 1.0 foot in depth, 
and one in the southeast quadrant (F29), measuring 1.4 feet in maximum 
diameter and 1.0 foot in depth. Both contained gray shaly sand. The 
latter yielded some pottery sherds, unmodified flakes, and animal bones, 
but the former lacked artifact and refuse materials. 
Other features: A cluster of boulder fragments (undesignated), just south 
of F28, possibly represented what might be called a stone trivet for holding 
a heated cooking pot; a large battered granite boulder-anvil (undesig- 
nated), in the southeast quadrant, near the outer ring of posts; and three 
rock fragments—two near the firepit and one near the perimeter of the 
outer ring of posts, at the north edge of the dwelling—which may have 
been accidental inclusions. Also in XU2, at the southeast terminus of 
the House 8 entryway, were found five postholes ranging from 0.25 to 0.4 
foot in diameter, forming an arc, and two irregular lines of seven and three 
posts, ranging from 0.25 to 0.65 foot in diameter, defined by fill softer 
than the surrounding matrix. The posts may have represented respec- 
tively an exterior ring of supporting posts and two partitions of another 
(undesignated) medium-size circular dwelling about 23 feet in diameter. 
This inference is strengthened by the finding, within the are, of a pocket 
cache pit, 0.95 foot in maximum diameter and 1.2 feet in depth, filled with 
gray shaly sand (but lacking artifact and refuse materials), and of a 
granite boulder-anvil, smaller but otherwise comparable to the one found 
in House 3. Regrettably, there was not time to work out the floor plan 
of this possible house more fully and in convincing detail. 
iousE 4 (F34) in XU17; figure 31 and plate 29, b. 
Shape: Medium-size, circular; 25.1 feet in mean diameter. 
Depth of pit: Shallow, unfaced native earth ; 0.6 foot to 1.15 feet below ground 
surface. 
Framing (inferred from excavated postholes defined by the presence of fill 
softer than the surrounding matrix) : Four central supporting posts which 
varied from 0.4 to 0.55 foot in maximum diameter and were on radii of 
from 4.5 to 5.9 feet from the center; and two rings of peripheral posts— 
a ring of 25 interior supporting posts ranging from 0.25 to 0.45 foot in 
diameter and spaced from 1.5 to 3.5 feet apart (except at the entrance), 
on a mean radius of 9.75 feet from the center, with a divergence of from 
0.1 foot to 1.35 feet; and a ring of 62 exterior supporting posts varying 
from 0.25 to 0.45 foot in diameter and spaced from 0.7 foot to 2.0 
feet apart (except at the entrance), on a mean radius of 12.55 feet from 
