NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD II3 



from under Room 167 and continuing westward (pi. 33, left). About 

 5 feet from its point of emergence thaf wall was joined by another 

 that diverged somewhat from the line of 167 to form a small room 4 

 feet 3 inches wide. Despite its narrowness, this small room had been a 

 dwelling. Its three visible walls were plastered and the plaster 

 rounded to its floor, 6 feet below the surface. Part of a T-shaped door 

 survived on the north side, its sill at a height of 17 inches ; beneath 

 it was an adobe step 6 inches high, its front sloping from a 9-inch base 

 to a 7-inch tread. 



In due course this doorway had been blocked from the outside 

 to leave a 19-inch-deep recess within. But its lower east jamb, of 

 second-type masonry, continued northwest about 4 feet and there was 

 replaced by third-type masonry to form the east side of a narrow 

 chamber 3 feet 10 inches wide by 13^ feet long — a sort of forerunner 

 for Room 283. The outer west side of that narrow chamber, of superb 

 second-type stonework continuing from the small room under 167, 

 was based 6 feet 8 inches below the surface (pi. 34, upper). 



Later and a foot higher that second-type exterior was abutted by 

 another wall of like construction, 18 inches thick. The two were 

 thickly plastered above the line of abutment as though for living 

 quarters but had been razed simultaneously a couple feet higher, 

 3 feet or thereabout below the surface. All the lower walls we bared 

 in this section were originally of second-type masonry but all had been 

 wholly or partially replaced by third-type stonework and all eventually 

 were wholly or partially pulled down. Finally, sealing all that had 

 gone before, a slab-lined fireplace 25 inches square and half as deep 

 found place above the abandoned walls. 



That slab-lined fireplace was built on the last recognizable East 

 Court surface, the surface upon which the bordering court walls were 

 built and upon which a lone wall crosses from east to west. The orig- 

 inal height and purpose of this cross-wall remain unknown, but it 

 was late in point of time and it had meaning for the Late Bonitians. It 

 stood 18 inches high and 16 inches wide where we found it, abutting 

 the exterior of Room 165, and apparently had replaced an earlier one 

 on a surface 3 feet lower. 



From this same point, on its 15-inch foundation, the wall extended 

 85 feet across court to Room 149, thence under its east wall and sub- 

 floor at a depth of 37 inches, and under the west side. At 78 feet 

 5 inches from Room 165, or 6 feet 7 inches short of 149, a vertical 

 break, straight as a door jamb, occurred in that cross- wall. The next 

 3^ feet consisted of coarser stonework as though a deliberate fill-in 



