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Location: Middle of the settlement, on the edge of the slight slope overlooking Black Duck Brook and Epaves Bay

Structures: Structure D is a multi-room building.  Structure E consists of a single room with a hard-trodden floor of sooty sand

Materials: Each building was built of sod over a timber frame

Observations:

• A small heap of 19 fist-sized stones was uncovered in the northern corner of the building, most of which were  rough limestone.
• Charred remains of posts were found on site.
• There was a small amount of debris in the middens outside the doorways.

• Room in Hall D contains the remains of a central longfire (centrally located fireplaces containing a stone hearth, a cooking pit, and an ember pit used to keep embers burning overnight). Another room contains a simple fireplace.

• An arrow-shaped object made of Eastern white cedar was found here, however the current northern limit of this type of tree is Anticosti Island.

• A treenail (or wooden nail) found in a spruce plank was made of Scots pine or red pine. Neither species is native to northern Newfoundland.

Artifacts:

• Hall D – Calcined (burned) fish bone (probably a cod vertebra) was found in the longfire pit.
• Approximately 1000 fragments of worked wood were found in the bog next to Hall D.  Most of this debris consists of chips and chunks, the by-product of axing and adzing.
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