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was the disturbed remains of a fire basin. Because of previous dis- 

 turbance, probably at time of the burial intrusions, this basin was 

 so broken up that it was completely removed by workmen before its 

 nature was discovered. That this was the floor of a structure is in- 

 dicated by the finding of the ends of two cedar posts at this level, 

 72 and 82 inches above the village floor, and near the center of this 

 mound. The earth covering this floor had by erosion been reduced 

 to a thickness of only 22 inches at the center of the mound. This 

 thickness was further reduced as the floor extended horizontally 

 outward, and at the edges of the mound this floor had been plowed 

 away during cultivation. 



It is believed that other cedar posts once part of this tertiary 

 structure have been plowed away at the edge, leaving as the only 

 remaining evidence of the structure the prepared clay floor and the 

 cedar posts near the center, which probably were not wall posts but 

 roof supports. If it should appear to some that the evidence for a 

 tertiary structure is hardly sufficient to prove its existence, it may 

 be said that in the understanding of the problem it is of little con- 

 sequence whether or not a third structure ever existed here. 



This tertiary structure, if it ever existed, seems to have been the 

 last building on the site, for with its collapse the earth of the roof, 

 so far as can be seen, never served as a structure floor, but into it 

 at a later time eighteen or more burials were intruded. The present 

 depth of these burials varies from 18 inches to 22 inches. None of 

 these burials quite reached the prepared floor of the tertiary struc- 

 ture. Some were several inches above it, as shown in plate 110, 

 while others are a foot or more higher. 



Because of the erosion of earth from the top of the mound, the 

 burials in the old village site immediately adjacent to the primary 

 structure were naturally buried deeper and deeper, while the in- 

 trusive burials on the mound top were made shallower. The differ- 

 ence in time between these two groups of burials may be great. Cer- 

 tainly it is at least as great as the total age of the two, or possibly 

 three, buildings on this site. 



Special Features 



Feature No. 1. — Near stake 6.1 and from 6 to 10 inches above the 

 village floor a pile of 72 limestones and sandstones of various sizes 

 was found in an irregular arrangement. This pile of stones, which 

 was 48 inches by 16 inches, is shown in plate 109, o. Seven inches 

 above these stones was a charred layer of bark and wood overlaid by 

 burned clay of a thickness varying from 2 inches to 5 inches. There 

 was no midden or ashes among the rocks, which show no evidence of 

 fire. 



