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Location: Northernmost buildings in the settlement

Structures: Structure G is a small, single room building.  It has a well-trodden, sooty floor and a small hearth by the south wall.  Structure F is much more elaborate.

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

Observations:

• Charred remains of posts were found onsite.
• One room in Hall F contained an oven consisting of a small chamber of stones set on edge, over which there had been a layer of smaller stones. 

• Hall F 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).
• A total of 99 iron nails and nail fragments were found at L’Anse aux Meadows, 78% of which are associated with buildings F-G, especially in the eastern part of Hall F.  Iron nails were generally not used by the west Norse in domestic architecture.  Many of the nails show signs of having been deliberately clipped and broken.

Artifacts:

• Spindle whorl – Soapstone, undecorated and shaped like a flattened semisphere; common on Norse archaeological sites dating back to the late10^th century to early 11^th century.   In Norse society, textile work was traditionally carried out by women.
  
  

Spindle whorl. Parks Canada [4A 1493-T]

• A small beach boulder into which a shallow circular depression had been ground.
  
  

Carved beach stone. Parks Canada [4A-2A]

• Clipped iron nails.
  
  

Iron nail fragments. Parks Canada [4A 1520-T]