[Various (1967)] I would hesitate to consider this small dwelling a true Iroquois longhouse, but the basic structure seems to have conformed to the longhouse pattern: a rectangular dwelling with a central bunk-bordered corridor containing hearths. Of course no general conclus ions concerning Onondaga house types can be made on the basis of this excavation alone. Although at the nearby Temperance House Fort I was also able to uncover a portion of a postmold pattern seemingly representing a rectangular structure with an 18' width and a central hearth, much more work on Onondaga settlement patterns must be done before any definite conclusions can be reached. It would be most interesting if Onondaga houses were primarily of a small, narrow variety, as represented at Atwell and proba bly Temperance House forts. This would be in marked contrast to those dwellings found on late prehistoric Mohawk sites such as Garoga (Ritchie 1965:318), and early Historic Seneca sites such as Factory Hollow (Guthe 1957) and Cornish (Hayes 1966), where longhouses were at least 20' wide and 50' long. The question, I think, is one worthy of future investigation. REFERENCES: Guthe, Alfred K. "The Search for the Floor Plan of a Seneca Structure" Museum Service, Bulletin of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 6-7. Rochester, N.Y. Hayes, Charles F. "Excavating an Early Historic Seneca Longhouse" Museum Service. Bulletin of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, May-June 1966. pp 76-81.