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yards , and the point itself was cut off from the rest of the 

 island by a ravine descending with precipitous sides to a 

 depth of from three to six metres. The passage-way from 

 one of the ruined houses came to an abrupt end just where 

 the ravine lay, which shows that the ravine did not exist at 

 the time when the house was inhabited. 



This circumstance, however, did not give us any clue to 

 the age of the house , as the ground crumbles away with 

 extraordinary rapidity along this coast ^). 



In the settlement there were four houses with the following 

 dimensions. 



d 



as 



Inner 



length of 



Inner breadth 



from back 



wall to 



passage-way 



Length of 

 passage-way 



Magnetic direction of 



e 



s 



О 



s 



Back 

 wall 



1 



1 Front 



wall 



Back 



wall 



Passage- 

 way seen 

 from within 





m 



Ш 



m 



Ш 





1 



5-3 



4-7 



3-Ô 



5-3 



NNE-SSWj ENE 



2 



3-1 



2-2 



3-S 



5-3 



E— W S 



3 



4-7 



! 4-4 



3-5 



5-6 



E-W SSW 



4 





1 



2-2 



5-0 



NW— SE 



NE 



AU the houses wore the appearance of age, especially No. 

 4, which was so dilapidated that the length of the front and 

 back wall could not be measured. 



The house must at any rate have been very small. 

 Amongst the houses we discovered a number of carved pieces 

 of wood, but nothing of particular interest. House No. 1 was 

 excavated, and yielded the following objects: an ellipsoid 

 stone such as the Eskimo use as a hammer, a Dutch bead, a 

 few pieces of a whalebone, and a few carved pieces of wood. 



The surrounding graves all consisted of a stone chamber. 

 One of thnm, which was situated on a little high rock close 



'i C. Kruuse. «Nalurforlioldene p.in Østgrønlands Kyst mellem 06'^ og 

 67° 22' Br.. GeograQsk Tidgkrifl. l.'i. Bd. 3-4. Hefte. Pag. G4. 



