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is a puzzling block of solid stonework faced with a mixture of 

 second- and third-type masonry the upper 22 inches of which remains 

 unplastered. In the face of that block, at a height of 3 feet, the 

 first of two open step-like recesses appears. 



A rude foundation at a depth of 5 feet 1 inch abuts the plastered 

 west side of 262 and extends eastward as though to cross the room. At 

 2 feet 6 inches above the floor on which that foundation lies, a 

 now blocked door formerly opened into Room 264 where sill height 



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258 



Scale in Feet: I" =10* 



Fig. 9. — East-west cross section of Rooms 262, 263, and 258. 



remains only 3 inches. The current Room 262 floor lies 5 feet 4 inches 

 higher, covering all but the lintels of its blocked north door but a 

 south door, 20 inches above the later floor, gave access to Room 251. 



This latter, Room 251, likewise marks a site long occupied; earlier 

 masonry lies deep beneath its adobe floor. Its visible north end, for 

 example, built of comparatively large blocks of laminate sandstone 

 without banding, rests directly upon and overhangs by from 4 to 8 

 inches its partially razed underfloor counterpart, still 5 feet 1 1 inches 

 high. Opposite, at the south side, underfloor masonry stands 6 feet 

 3 inches and there is an earlier floor 6 inches lower. 



All four of these abandoned under-251 walls are of readily 

 recognized second-type masonry and all remain unplastered. A 

 former south door, 19 inches above the floor at 6 feet 3 inches and 

 roughly blocked, had opened into the unexplored area under Rooms 



