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of quite the same form and size (20 × 10 cm), but one corner is broken off; it is apparently the other side of the same cooking pot. These two pieces were found respectively on the platform and the floor of the northern section of the house. Of the other specimens, which are all fragments, one measures 13 × 11 cm; all the others are much smaller. They display no new features. The surface is smoothed flat, the thickness varies from 1.4 to 0.8 cm; most of the fragments have holes, bored through from both sides; some have Image missingFig. 77 b.Limestone-lamp, seen from above. a projecting ledge along one edge; they all have remnants of soot and food crusts.

Close together, on the northern platform, were two rectangular gneiss slabs with thick crusts of soot on one side, which have apparently been used for cooking pots. They are both broken a little, and measure 17 × 13 and 14½ × 13 cm respectively. They are thin, split slabs with almost flat surfaces; the thickness is 0.6 to 0.7 cm. There was also found a small fragment of a rounded cooking pot of a very micaceous rock; the thickness is 2 cm.

Otherwise there were found in this house a bird scapula, broken over by boring a row of holes; 11 pieces of flint waste and 600 animal bones. An examination of the samples brought home gave the following result: dog 1, fox 7, caribou 7, white whale 1, bearded seal 1, small seal 49, salmon trout 8.