300 



siderable age. Close by it there was a play-ground for 

 children. The dimensions of the house were : 



Length of back wall 4-4 m 



— - front wall 3*8 - 



Breadth from back wall to front wall .... 3"8 - 



Length of passage-way 44 - 



Direction of back wall NW— SE 



— - passage-way seen from within SW. 



VI. On a narrow strip of ground at the foot of the high 

 rocks on the peninsula between Kangerdlugsuatsiak and 

 Nord Fjord there lay three houses close to the mouth of the 

 fjord. On the hill slopes behind the houses and in the 

 vicinity there was an unusually luxuriant vegetation. The di- 

 mensions of the houses were: 



6 



Inner length of 



Inner breadth 

 from back 



Length 

 of 



Magnetic direction of 



ез 











CO 



Э 

 О 



Back 

 wall 



Front 

 wall 



wall to 

 passage-way 



passage- 

 way 



Back 

 wall 



Passage-way 



seen from 



within 





m 



m 



m 



m 







1 



2-8 



1-9 



2-8 



4-1 



ESE— WNW 



SSW 



2 



9-7 



8-1 



4-7 



7-2 



ESE-WNW 



SSW 



3 



2-8 



2-5 



2-8 



5-3 



ESE— WNW 



SSW 



The excavation of houses No. 1 and 2 brought to light a 

 number of well-preserved pieces of wood and fragments of 

 iron which had almost rusted away. As the soil was extremely 

 damp from the water which poured down from the hill slopes, 

 the presence of these fragments of iron show that the houses 

 cannot be particularly old, as in fact is also indicated by their 

 appearance. On the other hand house No. 3 looked to be of 

 considerable age. In house No. 1 , there were remnants of a 

 little toy pot made of a mica-slate and in house No. 2 the 

 remnants of a |)ot and a few carved utensils of bone, none 

 of them, however of particular interest. 



