Hall F, Northern Wall

[ Hall F, Northern Wall, Northern wall of hall F, room IV.  The heavy dark lines are the sturdy sedge peat sods forming the northern corners in the room  The walls are on top of an old beach bank against which gravel, sand, and stones have accumulated in bands.  The dark line following the contours of the bank is dead vegetation from 3000 to 4000 years ago.
 
Before the time of  the Norse someone dug a pit in the terrace and threw the sand from it out over the terrace.  The Norse filled the pit with strips of sod. , Field drawing by Charles Lindsay, finish drawing by John Gaspereau, Parks Canada Archaeology collection, Halifax  ]

Source: Parks Canada Archaeology collection, Halifax, , , Field drawing by Charles Lindsay, finish drawing by John Gaspereau, "Hall F, Northern Wall," n.d.. Notes: Northern wall of hall F, room IV. The heavy dark lines are the sturdy sedge peat sods forming the northern corners in the room The walls are on top of an old beach bank against which gravel, sand, and stones have accumulated in bands. The dark line following the contours of the bank is dead vegetation from 3000 to 4000 years ago. Before the time of the Norse someone dug a pit in the terrace and threw the sand from it out over the terrace. The Norse filled the pit with strips of sod.

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