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of the cave slopes very steeply. The same conditions obtained in 
room 5, but in neither case could such a floor be distinguished. 
The six chambers just described were apparently the only true 
inclosed and roofed rooms of the house. The space No. 7 was, 
in all probability, an open court or terrace. Its front wall is 
shown in the foreground of plate 4. Having been merely a retain- 
ing wall, it probably never stood very much higher than it does at . 
present. Just inside it were set three short cedar posts, 9 inches in 
diameter, and from them to the north side of the room ran three 
poles about 6 feet long. At the north end these poles rest on other 
poles, laid horizontally. Below and around this logwork is packed 
earth and rubbish thrown in presumably as filling material. The 
whole had been reduced to charcoal by so severe a fire, burning from 
above, that even part of the rubbish below the logs was charred 
and scorched. There was a layer of unburned rubbish above the 
logs, showing that the house was inhabited for some time after the 
conflagration. 
The western part of the cave is closed in by a low retaining wall 
and was principally bare rock leveled here and there with packed 
adobe containing charcoal, corncobs, cedar bark, and other refuse. In 
the rear of this space at } (fig.2), and again nearer the roomsat ¢, are 
fireplaces, rounded depressions in the cave deposit 24 feet in diameter 
by 8 inches deep, coped and lined with stone slabs and plastered up 
and rounded over with mud. Each of them was filled to the top 
with white wood ashes. Room 8 was cnce a small storage cist or 
granary, formed by masoning up a cranny in the rock; all but the 
lowest course of the wall, however, has now fallen away. 
Entrance to the cave must have been gained by ladder, a doorlike 
gap, which can still be made out in the front retaining wall or bul- 
wark (fig. 2,2), having undoubtedly been the place against which the 
ladder was set. The pole by which we climbed to the ruin runs up 
to this entrance and may be seen in plate 3. 
On the ground below the cave there is a small section of curving 
wall (fig. 2, No. 9); it has been almost completely destroyed by 
water falling from the rocks above. This undoubtedly marks the site 
of the kiva. 
On the cliff west of the kiva there is a pecked petroglyph, a 
“mountain sheep” (see pl. 89, m), and around the point of the 
rocks some 500 yards farther west there is a large series of picto- 
graphs, ancient ones deeply pecked and much weathered, and recent 
incised drawings, probably Navaho, of men on horseback hunting 
deer (see pl. 97, b,c). Directly in front of this group, about 20 feet 
from the rocks, there is a large, low mound of dark soil which 
