ffi No! 2of' ARCHEOLOGY AT KIPP'S POST — ^WOOLWORTH, WOOD 259 



Feature 63, the central log cabin, was 18 feet east and west and 

 16.5 feet north and south. Between the two charred and chinked 

 sills were three floor joists which supported the floor of cotton wood 

 slabs. The flooring consisted of hewn slabs similar to those in the 

 cabin discussed previously. 



Features found here include a pit (F-ld) and a possible fireplace 

 (F-16). The pit was in the western portion of the cabin and was 

 oriented east and west. It contained an earth septum that divided 

 the bottom of the pit into two parts. One of the floor joists of this 

 cabin passed directly over the septum. This pit was 2.2 feet deep, 

 4.1 feet wide, and 7.0 feet long. It was apparently open at the time 

 the cabin above it burned, since charred flooring collapsed into it. 

 This feature contained a number of assorted trade beads, a plain finger 

 ring without a setting, clay pipe fragments, two pieces of a leather 

 shoe heel, glass fragments, animal bones, iron nails, a burned human 

 incisor, and plum (?) stones. This pit was probably originally for 

 the storage of trade items and food, and later for refuse. 



One possible fireplace (F-16) was in the western portion of this 

 cabin. It was badly disturbed by rodent burrows so that its identi- 

 fication is uncertain. It was about 2.5 feet in diameter and consisted 

 of ash and some burned earth scattered through a series of rodent 

 burrows. If it was originally a fireplace, it predates the period when 

 flooring was laid in this cabin, since it was beneath the board flooring. 



It seems probable that this cabin was used as a dwelling although 

 definite evidence is lacking. 



Feature 64, the easternmost cabin in this series, measured 19.3 feet 

 east and west and 17.5 feet north and south. It also had three floor 

 joists laid parallel to the sills. No pits, fireplaces, or other significant 

 finds were made in this structure. The absence of a fireplace in this 

 building would tend to suggest that it was not used as living quarters, 

 but for the storage of trade goods and furs, and possibly food in 

 wintertime. 



Evidence of a fourth structure (F-65) was east of the last log cabin 

 in this range of buildings. This feature does not appear to have been 

 a log cabin. Chinking was absent in this area, and sills and floor joists 

 were lacking. This building was not well defined, probably because 

 cultivation had gone deeper in this portion of the enclosure. It is 

 thought that this unit might have been a pole shed that occupied the 

 area between Feature 64 and the eastern stockade wall. 



At the western end of this structure were three large post butts (Fea- 

 tures 46, 47 and 48) in square post molds. The tops of these cotton- 

 wood logs were burned; the bases were sawed square. They were 

 placed in a line about 5 feet apart. It seems probable that these posts 



