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wall, was found a well-built cavity of dressed stone. It was appar- 
ently an empty grave, but no sign existed of its having been used as 
a burial place. Excavations made in the accumulated debris and 
into the floor structure of the diminutive chambers, marked a on the 
plan, yielded various fragments of terra cotta objects. 
EDIFICE No. 2. 
Southeast of the Palace group is the raised terrace that supports 
Edifice No. 2. This terrace is composed principally of earth held in 
position by walls of rough-hewn stone. The northeast end holds a 
mass of stone material of unknown use. I am inclined to believe it 
to be the foundation of some unfinished building. The edifice itself 
is a small unpretentious structure of two chambers raised upon a 
terrace about 4 feet high. 
ExCAVATIONS.—Superficial excavation revealed the outlines of the 
edifice as shown upon the map, and the character of the masonry is well 
brought outin Pl. XV. Excavations beneath the floor surface of Cham- 
ber No. 1, at a depth of 1 foot and 8 inches, brought to light a rude sep- 
ulchre which was hardly more than a simple cavity in the stone filling. 
This cavity contained the much decayed fragments of a human skel- 
eton. They had, apparently, been gathered up from some previous 
resting place and thrown into this cavity ina promiscuous heap. No 
signs of an earthen vessel or even of an ornament were found in the - 
grave. Continuing the excavation into the material of the substruc- 
ture, we found at a depth of 2 feet the remains of a second floor of an 
older structure. Apparently, this latter had been built partly above 
and upon the site of a still older edifice. This I have often found to 
be the case among these ruins. In the debris material I found many 
fragments of objects in terra cotta. Similar excavations in the floor - 
material of Chamber No. 2 revealed, at a distance of 3 feet from the 
northern wall, a well-made grave 3 feet long by 1 foot 4 inches wide 
and 2 feet deep, which contained many human bones and teeth, all 
much decayed. In the material just above the grave I found many 
terra cotta fragments of vessels and figures. These votive offerings 
were evidently broken and thrown upon the half-covered grave. As 
in the excavations of Chamber No. 1, we found here signs of a previous 
floor. Continuing to the depth of 3 feet more we came to the bed- 
rock and consequently to the limit of our excavation at that point. 
All the way from the surface down we found potsherds in great variety. 
