An extended entranceway on the west side of the houses was delineated by
an elongated area of organically stained soil and by two parallel rows
of post molds (Fig. 8). The stained area was clearly discernible in the
mound fill above both house floors. Despite extremely careful excavation
of this stained area, however, only the bottom portions of the post
molds—well below the floor level of House No. 1—could be seen.
Consequently the level from which the entranceway post holes were dug
could not be determined and it is uncertain to which of the two houses
they belonged. House No. 2 must have had its entranceway on the west
side because the organically stained outline showed clearly in the mound
fill well above the House 2 floor level. Possibly both houses had their
entranceways in this same area.
_House No. 2_
House No. 2 was represented by a distinct floor zone and by a circle of
post molds. The floor zone (Fig. 8) consisted of a lens of brownish sand
averaging about 15.5 feet in diameter, with a maximum thickness near the
center of almost a foot. It lay directly above the floor of House No. 1,
but was separated from it by a thin layer of clean, sterile sand 0.1 to
0.3 feet thick. The sterile sand layer was possibly placed over the
burned ruins of House No. 1 in order to provide a clean floor for House
No. 2.
The peripheral ring of post molds (Fig. 8) averaged a little less than
14 feet in diameter (or almost four feet less than that of the
underlying House No. 1) and lay entirely inside the exterior wall of
House No. 1. The two rings were not quite concentric, however, the
center point of House No. 2 being slightly to the west of the center
point of House No. 1. The post molds of House No. 2 were from 0.45 to
0.85 feet in diameter, and they extended from 1.6 to 2.0 feet below the
level of the related house floor. Several of the molds were sectioned
vertically to determine the level from which they had been dug. They
could be clearly traced from the floor of House No. 2 down through the
floor of House No. 1 into the sub-mound floodplain.
As was pointed out above in the description of House No. 1, there was
probably a circular, centrally located hearth associated with House No.
2, and one of the two center posts whose molds were found beneath the
hearth area must have been used in the construction of the later house.
There appeared to be no other interior post molds associated with House
No. 2. The entranceway was probably on the west side.
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