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unknown purpose crossed the room midway, from north to south. 

 The earlier floor, that at depth of 42 inches, lay within the partially 

 razed walls of a second-type kiva. The south side of the room, in- 

 cluding stone apparently salvaged from that razed kiva, had been 

 built upon a log whose west end was embedded in the first-type ex- 

 ternal stonework of Old Bonitian Room 325 and whose middle por- 

 tion rested directly upon the second-type masonry of the under-floor 

 kiva. 



In our 4-foot-wide test pit, the floor of that earlier kiva lay 10 feet 

 4 inches below the uppermost in Room 324, Our pit revealed the 

 usual kiva bench, 18 inches wide by 23 inches high, repeatedly plas- 

 tered and as often smoke stained but neither pilaster nor south recess. 

 The fact that only one coat of slightly sooted plaster appeared above 

 bench level suggests that this razed second-type kiva was either short 

 lived or that its upper walls were shielded by a wainscoting of upright 

 sticks and grass. 



The second-type kiva under Room 324 is only one of several con- 

 temporary structures erected in or on Old Bonitian court-side rooms 

 before all were razed in advance of the third- and fourth-type walls 

 now standing. Room 28, for example, was an Old Bonitian ground 

 floor dwelling 40 feet long before Late Bonitian architects straight- 

 ened its concave north side with a veneer of second-type masonry 

 (Pepper, ibid., fig. 144) and continued it at least to the second story 

 ceiling level. 



Part of that north-side veneer remains today between Room 28B 

 and Room 52, the second story of 32. Except for a second-type 

 partition built on a first-story beam. Room 28B was destroyed by 

 fire (Judd, 1954, p. 24) and replaced with the fourth-type masonry 

 that now encloses Rooms 55, 57 and 28B. A bit of contemporary 

 patchwork is still to be seen at the north end of 55 where a ceiling 

 timber was inserted into the Old Bonitian stonework (pi. 80, right). 



Adjoining Room 28 on the west is ground floor Room 3a (or 97) 

 with Room 92 as its second story and next beyond are Rooms 3 and 

 91, the latter above the former. As explained in Chapter II, the origi- 

 nal northeast and southeast walls of Room 3a were of old-fashioned 

 post-and-mud construction refaced with an inferior variety of second- 

 type masonry. That at the northeast was the better of the two, 

 and its continuation upward into Room 92 was better still. 



Here, in second-story 92, Late Bonitian reconstruction is more in 

 evidence. Veneering on the northeast side was 26 inches thick and, 

 including the stonework of Old Bonitian Room 3d which it abutted, 



