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House ruin VII. Rather collapsed, walls and doorway fallen in. Three platforms; the ground plan will be seen on fig. 78. When excavated the edge of the platform could be distinguished, but only seldom were the platform stones in position; often there was only a layer of moss over the lime gravel. In several places there was regular flooring.

This ruin yielded an uncommonly rich find, 221 specimens in all, many of them handsome, whole specimens which would indicate Image missingFig. 78.House Ruin VII; Kuk. that the inhabitants had died off and left their belongings in the house; this is also indicated by the find of a human skull just under the turf in the eastern part of the house. Objects from House VII are shown Pl. 68–70 and Fig. 79. The find from it consists of:

Fourteen harpoon heads. To the Thule type 1 belongs the small toy harpoon head Pl. 69.1 (P4. 470): it is of bone, rather flat; the shaft socket has been formed by drilling. Two specimens and an unfinished one belong to Thule type 2; the first two mostly resemble Mitimatalik Pl. 39. 1, are of antler, very prolonged (15.2 and 12.7 cm. respectively), but in both cases the rear end is broken off; one has two pairs of holes for the lashing round the shaft socket. The unfinished one is for a similar harpoon head, but is only 9.5 cm long. Two specimens only differ from this type in having only one barb; one is rather small and will be seen on Pl. 69.2 (P4. 505); the other is an unfinished head, 11.7 cm long; both are of antler. Three others belong to Thule type 3; one of them is the big, handsome head Pl. 69.3 (P4.698); it is of ivory, very thin, hexagon in section, ornamented with two longitudinal lines on each side and, in front of the line hole, the Y-line which is so frequently met with on the Naujan harpoon heads. The grooves for the lashing round the shaft socket have been. formed by drilling which, as previously described specimens also show, has played a great part in the technique. The other specimens. of this type are a broken fore end of a slightly smaller, but otherwise. exactly similar head of the same material, the same shape and with the same ornamentation, and a harpoon head just the same as Naujan Pl. 1.8 (but without blade), of antler, 8.4 cm long. Pl. 69. 4 (P4. 655) is a thin harpoon head of ivory with 2 spurs and, in the

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