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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN 



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The horizontal logs, placed as they were, one inside just below 

 the clay floor, and the other outside at the bottom of the trench, 

 about 20 inches below the floor, were admirably situated to give 

 maximum stability to such a structure. When the structure was 

 burned and fell, and later was covered over in order that another 

 structure might be erected upon the site, the decay of these hori- 

 zontal logs left horizontal molds in the trench which was filled with 

 dark humus. The vertical post molds would therefore be most dis- 

 tinct at the level of the prepared clay floor. This was a fact and 

 was easily observed. When the earth was cut away from the outside 



SITE 2 

 MOUND ONE 

 TYPICAL SECTION OF TRENCH 

 PRIMARY FLOOR 



YELLOW CLAY 

 CONSTITUTING 

 FLOOR OF STRUC- 

 TURE. 



BLACK HUMUS 

 FILLED TRENCH. 



Figure 6. 



of the post molds, and the floor layer was removed from the inside 

 of the building, the horizontal log mold was revealed against and 

 immediately inside of the row of vertical molds. 



There may be the suggestion of a doorway in the center of the 

 southwest wall of the primary structure. At that point a slight 

 outward curvature appeared for a distance of 4 or 5 feet. Just 

 within the line of molds at this point a trench which had evidently 

 been formed by the decay of a log laid horizontally and perhaps 

 used as a threshold was found. However, it appears, from facts 

 observed on other and seemingly related sites, that the doors to 

 these "town houses" were quite small. In general they appear to 

 have been little more than a mere crack in the wall, only large 

 enough to allow a person to enter by squeezing through sidewise. 

 These doors seem in most cases to have been in one corner; and, 

 from the placement of the two larger and extra post molds just 

 inside the trenches at the northwest corner, it is believed that the 



