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| The pit, or root cellar, is just in front of the square arrangement of stones that once was the fireplace and chimney. The archeologists are taking measurements and photographing the pit. At this point, they have no idea what the pit was used for. After they talked to the descendants of people who grew up on farms in the area, and read many books about life on a farm, they learned that underground root cellars were a common fixture in 19th-century farmhouses. |