Grace Rajnovich's (1983) thesis describes excavation of two Selkirk (Late Woodland) habitation structures at the Spruce Point site (DjKq-1) in the Kenora District of western Ontario.  The structures were defined by a color and texture contrast between the interior and exterior sediments.  Both had interior features.  Neither structure was completely exposed.  Rajnovich provided inferred outlines of the structures.  She estimated their dimensions to have been about 4m in width x 6 or 7m in length.  The plan view of Structure A is shown to the right.  The plan view of Structure B is here.

Above: Structure A (from Figure 8 of Rajnovich 1983:98).  This will be Structure 2235 in the database.

I stumbled upon a paper by Reid and Rajnovich (1991) that describes three Woodland structures from the Ballynacree site in the Kenora District of western Ontario.  The structures are about 8m x 4m, defined by both postmolds and contrasts between interior and exterior sediments.  At the time the paper was written, the three structures from the site constituted the majority of known, excavated Laurel houses.  I do not know if that is still the case.

Three radiocarbon determinations suggest that House 1 dates to about AD 1250. This is, of course, a relatively late age for something that is called "Middle Woodland."  These houses, like others that strain the Midwest/Southeast-centered cultural-historical framework that I'm currently using, are encouraging me to rethink the organization of the database.  Since the relationships between our temporal and cultural chronologies are not consistent across the eastern woodlands, it may be a good move to separate them in the organization of the database. I'm considering simply dividing "time" into discrete blocks (say 200, 500, or 1000 years in duration) and then several columns to categorize the cultural-historical placement of the site (e.g., Archaic - Late Archaic - Brewerton).  This would allow one to plot groups of contemporaneous structures within thicker or thinner slices of time.  Something to think about.

Above:  Figure 3 from Reid and Rajnovich 1991:196.  The caption is "The Ballynacree site excavations revealed three houses with their associated features--a complete Laurel village.

Christopher Ellis and colleagues have excavated several Late Archaic structures at the Davidson site (AhHk-54) in Middlesex County, Ontario.  Reports on a pithouse (Ellis et al. 2010) and a wall trench structure (Ellis and Keron 2011) are available on Chris' academia.edu page (along with many of the other interesting publications Chris has authored over the years).  The structures from the Davidson site have been added to the Structure inventory and will be included in the next issue of the Database.

The Davidson houses are also discussed in a recent paper in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology (Eastaugh et al. 2013) and are the subject of a chapter in an upcoming edited volume:

C. J. Ellis, J. R. Keron, J. H. Menzies, S. G. Monckton and A. Stewart (2015): For Immediate Occupancy: Cozy 3000 Year Old Heritage Winter House with River View near Lake Huron. Apply to Terminal Archaic Realty. In Building the Past: Studies of Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Region, edited by Brian G. Redmond and Robert A. Genheimer. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.

Above:  Plan map of Feature 32, a Late Archaic wall trench structure from the Davidson site.  Image from Davidson site webpage.