webb] ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN Q9 



43 shows two possible solutions of the problem. The diagram of this 

 structure should be carefully compared with the diagram of the 

 secondary structure, Feature No. 40. The holes in double circles 

 appear to have been double, i. e., a large hole with a smaller hole 

 inside. There was a definite soil demarcation in these doubled holes. 

 Also there was a marked difference in hardness of the two colors 

 of soil. The molds indicated by a cross in figure 43 may possibly 

 be the northern end of the primary structure. If this is true, it 

 would allow a complete secondary structure. Because of this uncer- 

 tainty, the dimensions of the primary are either length 54.5 feet and 

 width 28.5 feet or length 28 feet and width 27.6 feet. 



Feature No. 43. — The clay platform on the primary floor was lo- 

 cated just north of stake 10.5. It was 7 feet long by 5 feet broad 

 and 11 inches thick. It was built on the primary floor which ex- 

 tended beneath it. Several post molds came down into it; but these 

 were from the structure above and were not associated with the 

 primary floor. 



Feature No. 44" — On the primary floor, at stake 8.5, there was a 

 circular fire pit 22 inches in diameter and 7 inches deep. From its 

 placement it was believed to have belonged to the primary floor. 

 The primary and secondary floors were identical at that point. It 

 is situated near the center of the primary structure. 



Burial No. 1. — Only one burial was found in this mound, that of 

 a child probably about 6 years of age. It lay about 3 inches below 

 the seventh structure near stake 7.5. It was embedded in yellow 

 sand which lay in a depression of midden material. Due to the 

 method of excavation in this portion of the mound, i. e., slicing by 

 levels to floors, it was not possible to catch a vertical profile above 

 the burial to determine if it was intrusive, and if so, the line from 

 which the intrusion was made. All evidence, however, seems to indi- 

 cate that burial was not intrusive. There was no evidence of burial 

 on the floor of the seventh structure. 



Mound No. 2. 



This mound, the smaller of the two, was located about 200 feet 

 south of Mound No. 1. Plate 56, <z, shows a view of this mound from 

 the southeast, with Mound No. 1 in the distance. The original mound 

 was probably about 70 feet in diameter, but like Mound No. 1, it 

 had long been in cultivation and had been plowed down and much 

 eroded. It was staked 90 feet by 90 feet to get an area well outside 

 the original mound base. As usual, the southeast stake was desig- 

 nated 0.0. Excavation was begun by putting down a 10-foot trench 

 along the south side of the mound and working out 10-foot squares 



