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mound 4 feet 2 inches. The floors throughout the mound were uniformly 

 composed of yellow clay. 



Floors I. and II. were the largest in extent, measuring 32 feet in 

 diameter E. and W. Floors III. and IV. averaged 25 feet E. and W. 

 Floor V. measured 1 1 feet E. and W. 



The hearth belonging to Floor I. was composed of an oval ai-ea of 

 gravel measuring 2-9 by 2-3 feet, and placed excentrically to the S.S.W. 

 of the central picket, or highest part of the mound. 



Floor II. had two superimposed hearths ; the upper, a raised area of 

 red clay measuring 3 feet 3 inches in diameter, of a deep convex outline 

 in section, with thirty small sandstone pebbles embedded in the centre 

 and arranged over a space 2 feet 3 inches in diameter. The diameter of 

 the hearth through the base was 6 feet. The lower hearth was made of 

 grey clay. 



Floor III. had two superimposed hearths ; the upper, a small area of 

 blue clay with an unusually distinct bevelled edge ; the lower, an area of 

 baked clay with irregular surface. 



Floor IV. had a remarkable series of four hearths. The first was 

 made of gravel with a well-defined bevelled edge of circular outline, with 

 a diameter of 3 feet 6 inches. The second, made of grey clay, circular in 

 outline, surface flat, and tilted towards the E. The third, made of gravel, 

 resting on a substratum of grey clay ; the surface of the hearth was flat, 

 the outline quadrangular, with the corners rounded oflf and the margin 

 finely bevelled. The fourth, made of clay ; the surface was hard-baked 

 and uneven, the greatest depression 3 inches deep ; the hearth had a 

 circular outline, surrounded by a moulded rim 6 inches wide at the 

 base and raised 1^ inch above the level of the enclosed baked-clay area, 

 which measured 3 feet 3 inches in diameter. 



Floor V. was a small area of clay which only partially covered the 

 timber substructure. It had two superimposed hearths of baked clay 

 arranged excentrically W. of the central picket, or highest point of the 

 mound 



The timber substructure was remarkably complete and well-preserved. 

 The timber formed a circular platform 19 feet in diameter E. and W,, 

 the pieces being placed lengthways in an E.N.E. and W.S.W. direction, 

 and measured from 6 to 12 feet long and from 5 to 9 inches in diameter. 

 These were resting on other logs placed at right angles. 



The platform sank towards the centre, forming a shallow, saucer- 

 shaped concavity, the difference in the level of the circumference and the 

 centre of the depression being 15 inches. The platform was surrounded 

 by several concentric rings of small piles or wall-posts. The posts were 

 driven in at intervals of 9 to 15 inches. The inner circle of posts was 

 placed at an average distance of 9 feet 6 inches from the centre, the second 

 at 10 feet 6 inches, and the third at 12 feet. Besides the piles arranged 

 in line, several hundreds more were found driven in indiscriminately, 

 without apparent arrangement, within a distance of 12 to 16 feet from 

 the centre of the dwelling. At the W.S.W. aspect of the platform the 

 continuity in the lines of the wall- posts was broken for a space of 6 feet. 

 Where the concentric circles of wall-posts terminated two lines of three 

 large piles were found, radiating from the centre to the circumference of 

 the dwelling. The piles in each line were placed at 12 inches apart, and 

 the middle post in each instance formed the terminal post of the inner 

 circle of wall- posts. Between the two lines of posts the arrangement of 



