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were mainly for purposes of exploration, T16 was expanded to 
about thirty times its original size when indications of two house 
sites were found. In this section sterile soil was reached at 
level 5. Shell tempered potsherds outnumbered erit tempered 
both 
House 
f 
Evidences of 9 houses were uncovered in the south end of 
the village, and 10 in the north end, but portions of their floor 
plans had been destroyed by gulley erosion. Complete plans, 
however, were obtained from excavations at T9 and T16 
(House Sites Fl) and excellent cross sections were found at T14 
CHouse Si'tpc "P? vri ^„a rryi \ 
x..^ cuiidi-c muicauons ot the house sites, as recorded oy 
Potter in 1878, were the circular depressions averaging about 
thirty feet in diameter and two feet in depth. By 1942 these de- 
pressions had been largely plowed over, but dark stains of ash 
and charcoal could still be seen on the plowed surface. Just 
below the plow line at a depth of about six inches the outline 
becomes more distinct and begins to assume a more nearly 
rectangular shape as the layers are stripped. At a depth of about 
two feet the floor plan of the structure becomes apparent (see 
Plates V-A, V-B, VI-A, and Vl-B). 
A double row of small postmolds form the wall outline. 
Ihere is an interior circle of larger posts and a central fireplace. 
I he only doorway faced seuth or west toward the old lakebed. 
Large refuse pits were found outside the structure but smaller 
ones were inside. The walls were probably of wattle and daub, 
averaging about one foot thick, plastered between the two lines 
of small wall posts. The posts in each line were set about 5 or 
5 inches apart. Cross beams were attached to the main uprights 
spaced about every foot vertically. Sometimes the wall posts 
were not set m trenches but were evidently set up in a not too 
straight hne. Positive PvM.n... «^ r i_._.:„, ...._. ...... 
roof 
1. ' "^^^'^ matched with a large smoke hole in the center. 
Ihe excavation of T9, Fl was particularly fruitful. This 
>e plan measiir*./4 99 u,. io j- , ... - "^ . ... *. 
the ridg 
possibly 
axis 
posts. 
The 
firen1^.« • *u- i ^'-^""wn ur supponmg a Dcncn. i*'^ 
in ?h.n! '"■.?'' """'" ^'^' especially interesting. It was oval 
LTT. '^'''^ ""^^ ^^ P^^dJ^d c'^y elongated at the west 
end to give a max rrmm U ^U _r ^^ c/ . .... . ^ , .* 
_ maximum length 
Ine run. whir», v^-^a . . 
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