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INTERIOR OF CAVATE LODGES. 



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tiuii is conueeted with another almost circular room of the same size. 

 The floors of all three of these rooms are on the same level, but the 

 roofs of the two smaller rooms are a foot lower than that of the 

 entrance room. At the northern end of the entrance room there is a 

 passageway 3 feet long and 2i feet wide leading into the principal 

 room of the set. This passageway at its southern end has a framed 

 doorway of the type illustrated later. 



The main room is roughly circular in form, measuring 16 feet in its 

 north and south diameter and 15 feet from east to west. The roof is 

 about 7 feet above the floor. Figure 292 shows a section from north- 

 west to southwest {a, b, figure 291) through the small connected room 



Section THROUGH. CD. 



Fig. 292. — Sections of cavate lo(lge.s, group D. 



adjoining on the south, and also an east and west section (c, d, figure 

 291). The floor is plastered with clay wherever it was necessary in 

 order to bring it to a level, and the coating is consequently not of uni- 

 form thickness. It is divided into sections by low ridges of clay as 

 shown in the plan and sections ; the northern section is a few inches 

 higher than the other. Extending through the clay finish of the floor 

 and into the rock beneath there are four pits, indicated on the plan by 

 round spots. The largest of these, situated opposite the northern door, 

 was a fire hole or pit about IS inches in diameter at the floor level, of an 

 inverted conical shape, about 10 inches in depth, and plastered inside 

 with clay inlaid with fragments of pottery i)laced as closely together 

 as their shape would permit. The other pits are smaller; one located 

 near the southeastern corner of the room is about (J inches in diameter 



