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CAVATE LODGE GROUND PLANS. 



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III the eastern side of the circular room last described there is a 

 storage cist about 3 feet wide aud 3 feet deep. No fire-pit was seen 

 in this cluster, although if the principal apartnieut were carefully 

 cleaned out it is not improbable that one might be found. 



A cluster of rooms somewhat resembling the last described is shown 

 in plan in figure 296. This cluster occurs at the point marked B on the 

 map. The main room is set back 5J feet from the face of the bluff, 

 which is vertical at this point, and is oblong in shape, measuring 19i 

 by 11^ feet. Its roof is 7J feet above the floor in the center of the 

 room. Attached to its southern end by a passage only a foot in length 

 is a small room or storage cist about 5 feet in diameter. At its north- 

 eastern corner there is another room or cist similar in shape, about 7 

 feet in diameter, and reached by a passage 2 feet long. This small 



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Fig. 296. — Plan of cav.ite lodges, group B. 



room is also connected with a long room east of the main apartment by 

 a passage, the southern end of which was carefully sealed uj) and 

 plastered, making a kind of niche of the northern end. At the south- 

 eastern corner of the room there is a small niche about 2 feet in diam- 

 eter on the level of the floor. 



The eastern side of the main room is not closed, but opens directly 

 into an oblong chamber of irregular size with the roof nearly 2 feet 

 lower and the floor a foot higher than the main room. This step in the 

 floor is shown by the line between the rooms on the ground plan. The 

 second room is about 6 feet wide and 20 feet long, its southern end 

 rounding out slightly so as to form an almost circular chamber. Near 



