Mounds B, C, and D each contained evidence of at least one circular
house structure which had been burned and then mounded over with sand.
Because of the consistent pattern of burning, paucity of domestic
artifacts, and burial of the house ruins beneath mounds, it is believed
that the structures were ceremonial in function and that the burning was
intentional. The few artifacts associated with the house structures
indicate that they all were built by a single group of people related to
the Titus Focus of the Fulton Aspect.
The house at Mound B was 17 feet in diameter. It had an extended
entranceway on the southeast side, a centrally located hearth prepared
of clay, and several interior roof supports. This house had been built
directly on the surface of the floodplain.
There were two houses at Mound C, the smaller one (14 feet in diameter)
superimposed over the larger one (18 feet in diameter). Each apparently
had a centrally located hearth and one, or possibly both, had an
extended entranceway on the west side. Two interior roof support molds
were related to the earlier house, but none were found for the later
one.
Beneath Mound D was a single house with traces of an interior hearth
situated near the center and an extended entranceway on the west side.
Instead of being built directly on the surface of the floodplain as were
the houses at Mounds B and C, the house at Mound D had been built in a
shallow excavated pit.
Underneath each of the interior hearths associated with the houses at
Mounds B and C was a relatively large post mold. It is uncertain whether
there was a similar post mold at Mound D because the large pothole there
had removed the central portion of the house floor, including the
hearth. These molds at Mounds B and C apparently mark the locations of
center posts which were used as work platforms during construction of
the houses and then removed after the houses were completed. Ridges of
sand around the perimeters of all the houses seem to have been banked
against the exterior walls while the houses were standing. The
floodplain between and around the mounds was tested by pitting and
trenching, but no occupational features or concentrations of cultural
material were found away from the mounds.
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