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by a narrow passageway, 250, connecting Rooms 251 and 256. The 

 south side of this passageway is a coarsely constructed partition built 

 upon the floor of Room 247 and directly under one of its regular ceil- 

 ing beams. Only 16 inches north of this beam a comparable timber 

 seated above the second-story floor offsets, supported a masonry wall 

 between Rooms 247BN and 252B. Among fallen roof timbers in the 

 northwest corner of Room 247 we recovered 20 loosely tied bundles of 

 cedar bark. Over a dozen more were found in 250 (pi. 61, right). 



Room 252 as last occupied had a ceiling height of only 6^ feet 

 but a test against its north wall revealed earlier floors at depths 

 of 13 inches, 2 feet 7 inches, 3 feet 11, and 5 feet 4, An original 

 doorway to Room 263 had been remodeled and raised at least once in 

 conformity with these changes in floor level (fig. 8). 



Like its neighbors. Room 263 exhibits a mixture of second- and 

 third-type stonework. Its upper floor, despite a ceiling height of 

 10 feet 5 inches, lies 3 feet 8 inches below that of Room 252 and 4^ 

 feet below that of 262 (fig. 9). There is an earlier Room 263 floor 

 at depth of 17 inches and 34 inches deeper a north-south foundation 

 extends lengthwise of the room and continues northward under 

 Room 265. 



A 2-inch course of small laminate pieces on this subfloor founda- 

 tion offers inadequate identification but it has been plotted as a 

 probable third-type product (fig. 5). Standing upon this abandoned 

 foundation, an 8-inch-diameter post packed about with mud and 

 sandstone spalls, represents a probable ceiling prop that was broken 

 off at a height of 4 feet 3 inches, or 8 inches below the latest Room 263 

 floor. To our surprise, the 7 feet of waste profiled by our south-end 

 test pit revealed a disproportionally small amount of rock-impressed 

 adobe from razed walls although here, as in other units of the group, 

 there was abundant evidence of construction, demolition, and recon- 

 struction. 



A cross section midway of the rectangle, through Rooms 262, 

 263, and 258, offers additional data (fig. 9). In Room 258 the 

 fourth-type north and south walls, their foundations at floor level, 

 abut the plastered west side whose foundation lies 5 feet 2 inches 

 deeper. That west side is the refaced exterior of Rooms 252 and 263. 

 The latest floor in 263, 4^ feet below that of 262, is 3 feet 8 inches 

 below the latest floor in Room 252 and 32 inches below that of 258. 



That our 14-room rectangular block was once the eastern limit of 

 the pueblo seems probable for several reasons. There are the dif- 

 ferences in floor level between the 14 rooms and those adjoining. 



