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CAVATE LODGE GROUND PLANS. 



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floor. lu the nortlieasteru corner there is a sballnw cove, also raised 

 slightly above the main floor and conuectiug by a narrow opeiiiug with 

 the outer vestibule-like rooms on the north. These northern rooms 

 of the lodge seem to be simply enlargemeuts of the ])assageway. The 

 northern opening is a window rather than a door as it is about 10 feet 

 above tlie ground and therefore could be entered only by a ladder. 

 The opening is cut in tlie back of a cove in the clift', and is 6 feet from 

 the northern end of the main room. At half its length it has been 

 enlarged on both sides by the excavation of niches or coves about 4 

 feet deep but only 2i feet high. These coves could be used only for 

 storage on a small scale. 



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Fig. 294. — Plan of cavate lodges, group A. 



In the southeastern corner of the main room there is another open- 

 ing leading into a low-roofed storage cist, approximating 4 feet in diam- 

 eter, and this cist was in turn connected with the middle one of the 

 three rooms first described. This opening, at the time the room was 

 examined, was so carefully sealed and plastered that it was scarcely 

 perceptible. 



A difl'erent arrangement of rooms is shown in plan in figure 294 and in 

 section in figure 295. This group occurs at the point marked A on the 

 map. The entrance to the main room was through a narrow passage, 3 

 feet iong, leading into the chamber from the face of the bluft', which at 



