NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD 89 



The sealed door in the west wall of Room 115 invited close ex- 

 amination. Its north jamb, 3 feet high, was intact and so was half 

 the original second-type blocking but the remainder had been removed 

 and replaced above sill level with third-type masonry. Ten feet south 

 of the surviving jamb this substituted stonework overhung the origi- 

 nal by 5 inches (pi. 37, upper). Wind-blown sand had piled up 

 against the outside wall until the blocked door was half covered but, 

 18 inches below sill level, we came upon a trampled silt surface and, 

 27 inches lower, the west-wall foundation, 29 inches high. That 

 foundation was built upon blown sand of unknown depth but con- 

 taining occasional bits of charcoal and early-type potsherds. 



South of Room 115 are 116 and then three unnumbered rooms 

 that preserve the convex outer curve and the original second-type 

 masonry of the Late Bonitians' 2-story additions. We know these 

 three only from the outside but asstmie they have practically the 

 same floor level, wall height, and door arrangement as Rooms 114, 

 115, and others of their kind. In the first two, blocked west doors 

 have lintels 21 inches above the floor of third-type Room 117 (pi. 37, 

 lower). If we assume that those doors are 3 feet high, as was that in 

 Room 115, and that each is 34 inches above its respective floor, the 

 average measured sill height in Rooms 200 and 202, then floor level 

 in those two unexcavated second-type Late Bonitian rooms is 3 feet 

 10 inches below that in third-type Room 117 and, based on our com- 

 parative data between 114 and 317, approximately 4^ feet above floor 

 level in Old Bonitian Room 320. 



The narrow space between the southernmost of these three unex- 

 cavated Late Bonitian rooms and the exterior of Room 320 had been 

 filled with waste and roofed over at time of construction. We noted 

 remains of the one-time ceiling in the southwest ventilator of 320B — 

 pine poles recently severed by a cross-cut saw and strips of split cedar 

 above the poles. Presumably all comparable space between the older 

 and later masonry northward to Room 101 was similarly roofed by 

 the Late Bonitians. 



Together, these five second-type rooms, 115, 116, and the unnum- 

 bered three, embody architectural data to which I shall return in the 

 next chapter, but it may be recorded here that, although the west 

 wing of Old Bonito ended with Rooms 320 and 326, the row 

 of 2-story houses outside the old buildings continued at least two 

 units beyond before all were razed and replaced during the Late 

 Bonitian's second and greater expansion program — the program that 

 began at the blocked west door of Room 115. 



