PEWKEs] ANTIQUITIES OF MESA VERDE NATIONAL PAEK 41 



already having been considered, a brief enumeration by form and 

 other characters will be given. 



Eoom 1, situated at the extreme southern end, presei_}.ts no striking 

 features except that one of its entrances is by stairs through the floor 

 from kiva A. Its western and northern walls are of masonry; the 

 remaining sides are formed by the vertical cliff. 



The walls of room 2 are constructed of masonry on the northern, 

 western, and southern sides; the eastern side is the cliff face. As 

 the floor of this room is made of hardened clay laid on small sticks, 

 it was at first supposed that a human burial was concealed beneath, 

 but excavation showed no signs of an interment. 



Room 3 (pi. 17) is a square inclosure between walls of other rooms. 

 A portion of its floor is level with that of rooms 1 and 2, but a pro- 

 jecting rock forms an elevated bench on the eastern side. On the 

 underside of this rock there are iDictographs, apparentlv aboriginal, 

 one of which has a well-known terrace form, recalling the outlines 

 of a T-shaped doorway and the white figures on the outer wall of 

 the ledge room above mentioned. 



Room 4 is three stories high, without openings into adjoining 

 rooms or exterior entrances. Its western corner is rounded below 

 and angular above. 



Room 5 was apparently two stories high, with a fireplace in its 

 southeastern corner. The foundation rests on a large rock. The 

 arrangement of post holes in the south and west walls of this dwell- 

 ing is exceptional, and their purpose enigmatical. There is a passage 

 from room 5 to the neighboring plaza, which is occupied by kiva D. 



Room G is a small rectangular chamber, about 2 feet square and 7 

 feet high ; it has an entrance on the western side into room 7, and, as 

 it utilizes the walls of the adjacent rooms, it was doubtless built sub- 

 sequent to them. Evidences of rebuilding or secondary construc- 

 tion of walls on old foundations are so numerous in this section of the 

 ruin that this may be the oldest part of Cliff Palace, 



Rooms 7, 8, and 9 are outside rooms, the western walls of which 

 are more or less broken, while the front is entirely destroyed. It ap- 

 pears that their connected roofs once formed a terrace overlooking 

 kiva I) on the west. There are doorways in walls of one of these 

 rooms, but entrance may have been gained by means of hatchways. 

 It was approached from plaza B by the aid of ladders or stone steps. 



Room 11, which may be called the square tower, is the only four- 

 story building standing in Cliff Palace, its walls reaching from the 

 floor to the roof of the cave. "When work began on this building the 

 whole northwestern angle had fallen, and the remaining walls were 

 tottering. To prevent total destruction, the entire corner was built 

 up from a foundation laid on the floor level of the neighboring kiva. 

 A small entrance to the ground floor, or the lowest of the four rooms. 



