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Since these areas were selected at random for investigation, it is 

 quite probable that there were many such paved areas in the old 

 village site. Their purpose is conjectural. While they were cer- 

 tainly associated with evidences of fire, they do not appear to have 

 been fireplaces. 



In area B of the plat the subsoil showed a large number of post 

 molds which seemed to fall into two groups, as shown in figure 1, 

 The westward group, photographed in plate 3, a, revealed an irreg- 

 ular arrangement. The eastward group, shown in plate 3, b, seems 

 definitely to indicate a post-mold pattern of a rectangular structure. 

 These molds, which formed rows indicating the walls of a structure, 

 were generally from 3 to 5 inches in diameter. A few of the molds 

 in the interior of the structure were as large as 20 inches in diameter. 

 A dark area following the line of post molds seems to indicate that 

 in seating the posts for the wall a trench had been dug and the bases 

 of the posts set in it in approximately straight lines and at the 

 proper depth. The surface earth, darker in color than the hardpan, 

 was then filled in about the base of the posts, leaving the line of the 

 trench clearly indicated in contrast with the undisturbed subsoil. 

 The form of these trenches is indicated in figure 1. 



Mound No. 1 



This mound was approximately circular in form and about 90 

 feet in diameter and 10 feet high at the center. It rested on a 

 very definite humus layer varying from 1 to 2 feet in thickness, the 

 greatest thickness being on the west side. Below this humus there 

 was a heavy yellow clay subsoil. The mound had been erected of 

 yellow clay and red clay and deposited in pockets or spread in small 

 oval layers. The color contrast was so great that it was possible in 

 some cases to identify the individual loads of earth which had been 

 deposited by the builders. Pockets of black humus occurred at 

 intervals throughout the mound which seemed to indicate that a load 

 of topsoil occasionally had been dumped with the clay. Both yellow 

 and red clays are available in quantities in nearby outcrops. Any 

 vertical face cut in this mound thus showed stratification of red, 

 yellow, or black lenticular layers of varying thickness throughout. 



The mound was staked in 10-foot squares, as shown in figure 2, 

 TO feet eastward and 90 feet north-south. On the north side the 

 tier bounded by stakes 0.0-0.7 — 1.7-1.0 was sliced down evenly to a 

 depth of several inches below the humus line underlying the floor of 

 the mound. Under the limitations attaching to the use of Civil 

 Works Administration labor, it was necessary to employ approxi- 

 mately 40 men at this site. For this reason, excavation was started 



