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CAVATE LODGE STORAGE CISTS. 



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particiiliirly in i>oiiit of size, it is difficult to draw a line between 

 small rooms and large storage fists, but including the latter there 

 are two hundred rooms on the main level, divided into seventy-four 

 distinct and separate sets. These sets comprise from one to fourteen 

 rooms each. On the upper level there are fifty-six rooms, divided into 

 twenty-four sets, making a total of two hundred and tifty-six rooms. 

 As nearly as can be determined by the extent of these ruins the ])op- 

 ulation of the settlement was probably between one hundred and fifty 

 and two hundred persons. 



There is great variety in the rooms, both in size and arrangement. 

 As a rule each set or cluster of rooms consists of a large apartment, 

 entered by a narrow passageway from the face of the blutt', and a 

 number of smaller rooms connected with it by narrow doorways or 

 short passages and having no outlet except through the large apartment. 



Fig. 290.— Walled storage cist. 



As a rule two or more of these smaller back rooms are attached to 

 the main apartment, and sometimes the back rooms have still smaller 

 rooms attached to them. In several cases there are three rooms in a 

 series or row extending back into the rock, and in one instance (at the 

 point marked E on the map, plate xxv) there are four such rooms, all 

 of good size. 



Attached to tiie main apartment, and sometimes also to the back 

 rooms, there are usually a number of storage cists, differing from the 

 smaller rooms of the cluster only in size. These cists or cubby holes 

 range in size from a foot to 5 feet in diameter, and are nearly always 

 on a level of the tloor, although in some instances they extend below it. 



