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had actually been dug against the foundation, thus causing one side to 

 be flattened. The cists, therefore, were later than the foundation 

 whatever the age of this latter. 



Although it carried no identifying stonework, that subfloor founda- 

 tion is unquestionably Late Bonitian but it could be either early or late. 

 My only reason for suggesting an early period is its possible relation- 

 ship to those foundations and floor levels underlying the whole 14- 

 room block (figs. 8, 9), which block is basically of second-type con- 

 struction with later revisions. The five Room 266 cists followed the 

 subfloor foundation and they were dug for storage purposes although 

 only one, No. 4, yielded evidence of foodstuffs. All five, like those 

 reported by Pepper in Room 62, were filled with blown sand and 

 broken pottery. From the sherds in Cist No. 1 we restored 22 bowls 

 of which 20 were less than 6 inches in diameter (Judd, 1954, pi. 56). 



These subfloor storage cists were the outstanding feature of Room 

 266 but the level of their overlying work surface or floor could not, un- 

 fortunately, be accurately correlated with that Pepper reported in 

 Room 62, adjoining. Sill height of a west door is 4 feet above the 

 Room 266 floor but we lack a corresponding measurement from the 

 opposite side. North of this opening the west wall of 266 is noticeably 

 convex and at a height of 5 feet 8 inches, holds one or more longitu- 

 dinal poles positioned, perhaps, coincident with Room 70 alterations. 

 A south door, opening into Room 264, had a sill height of only 26 

 inches. 



The subfloor foundation noted in Room 266 continues under 264 

 but here a second pavement reduced sill height of the connecting 

 door to 15 inches and that of a former south door to a mere 3. In 

 the next two rooms, 262 and 251, deeper digging revealed abandoned 

 second-type walls and associated floors at much lower levels. 

 Figures 8, 9 will illustrate our findings more clearly than words and 

 the depths indicated will explain why our observations were usually 

 limited to narrow test pits. Lower walls invariably were built of 

 hand-smoothed friable sandstone and were chinked after the manner 

 of our second type while upper masonry in most cases was a mixture 

 of second-type and third. 



In Room 262, where east and west foundations lie 6 feet 5 inches 

 below the latest floor level, we exposed an earlier surface a foot 

 deeper and on it a wall fragment 20 inches wide by 8 inches high, 

 plastered on the east side only and painted pink, that continues under 

 and beyond the north end of the room. On an apparent work surface 

 at depth of 5 feet 9 inches, occupying the whole south end of 262, 



