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provided plenty of pat moss f a this pupae.
If windows were prewnt in the walls. they must have been covercd by something aher
than glur as then was no sign of pone glass in the revsnrccnth-century deporiu.
Llkewire. building h dwm (other than nails) was w-. One possible piece of
hardware was a heavily conoded ohjest resembling a small pinlle. It may have supported
a wmdow shutter or evm tk d m, dthough ill n dl size suggests the former. lt was
found outride the house in the vicinity of thedaonvay.
The rypc of roof covering the house is unenain. however, the ngan~c matrix and large
flat stones of the house collapre rvgpsu nomc form of massive organic covering.
St~atigrpphie proRIcz through the center of the hnne also show flat st- "em the top of
the h~urecollvp~cas well as thmughwt it. The how collapse rtrarum was so full of flat
stones that excavation was difiicult. In many placer the meks rested dimlly upon the
batch cobble sub-floor, having Ian&d with such fme thal they displaced even the
emhen floor of the hws. Photographs of the excavation half way thmugh the
arehxologicnl pmjectilluruae the multitude of stones &ng the houJe flwr (Figare9
43 and 441. For the houre mllnpw to contain so m y flat stones, it -Id appear that
they were used on the rmf of the house a well u in the gable wall cmtnining the he&.
Although it was not universal throughout the counuy, t k mmocommon moeng mated