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in the back of the northern platform wall; besides this, however, there were six whale skulls which had been used in building the walls but had fallen into the house. Whale vertebrae, walrus skulls and jaws and pieces of whale jaw bones had also been used in the building of the walls. The platforms, about 40 cm higher than the floor, almost at the same height as the ground outside, were supported by lime-stones placed on edge and were covered with large slabs of the same material; this made several cavities under the Image missingFig. 75.Kuk. House ruin III with the fallen-in roof removed. platforms (stippled in the ground plan). The bottom was floored with thin slabs of lime-stone. The roof had been supported on high pillars. of lime-stone, about a metre higher than the platforms; in the middle of the main platform in the largest room stood one high, slender pillar and one at each side of the entrance to that room. The following material had been used in the construction of the roof, and was found, collapsed, inside the house: 9 large pieces of whale jawbone, 2½ whale ribs, a piece of whale vertebra ¾ metre long, 5 large caribou antlers and 7 long, sawn-off branches of caribou antler, a number of large lime-stone slabs and a thick layer of turf. The store room was a large, four-sided stone erection, about a metre high above the platform. The door-way, which was still standing, was 1.6 m long, 0.8 m high and 0.6 m broad; it was built of lime-stone slabs; its floor was paved. Over the doorway there was still a 20 m layer of turf; over a part of the store room a layer of turf was also preserved, 35 cm thick.

The find from this comparatively well-preserved house includes