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and the remaining 3 feet, on a foundation 11 inches below the surface, 

 had been reduced to court level as though for an open passageway. 



That above-court wall was paralleled at an average of 26 inches 

 by a near-duplicate, 21 inches high and 4 inches below ground, that 

 likewise passed under the east side of Room 149 and westward on an 

 earlier floor at depth of 37 inches. Constructed chiefly of large 

 blocks of dressed sandstone with relatively little chinking, this 

 parallel wall also appeared to be one built of material salvaged 

 from older structures. In composition it was neither second-type 

 nor fourth- but a blend of the two. Thus Room 149, itself a third- 

 type-masonry building on the periphery of Kiva A, is later than the 

 lone, third-type wall crossing the East Court (fig. 5). 



Various test pits and trenches we cut north and south of these 

 cross-walls pierced earlier court surfaces exposing portions of 

 razed buildings that sometimes seemed self-explanatory but more 

 frequently defied explanation. A trench we opened outside the north- 

 east corner of Room 149 revealed a succession of former surfaces the 

 more obvious of which were at depths of 10, 20, 28 and 38 inches. 

 The lower 2 feet of our test exposed mixed debris of occupation and 

 demolition. Directly beneath the corner and at the 38-inch level we 

 came upon the imprint of a wattled wall, oriented east- west. On ap- 

 proximately the same level but farther out we found an oval, masonry- 

 lined repository 10 by 22 inches by 10 inches deep, finished on the 

 inside only and filled with shale fragments. Nearby but 10 inches 

 higher an unlined basin 9 inches deep likewise contained shale. 



Of greater significance was a section of wall, 21 inches thick, 

 rough on its west side but faced with excellent second-type masonry, 

 plastered and whitened, that paralleled Room 149 at a distance of 

 4^ feet. That section proved to be our introduction to a pair of 

 rooms built of second-type masonry but later partly razed and 

 replaced with third-type stonework. Those two rooms straddled the 

 second-type cross-court wall we had previously discovered emerging 

 from beneath Room 167 32 feet 9 inches north of Room 289. How- 

 ever fragmentary their masonry, the two rooms were almost equal 

 in size, averaging 7^ by 16 feet, and their adobe floors lay 7 feet below 

 the surface. 



Seven feet measures the rise in court level since those second-type 

 walls were built. In the wall separating the two there is a former 

 door, 3^ feet wide and 22 inches across the sill. On the floor 

 below, a masonry step of door width and an 11 -inch tread stands 6 

 inches high. Three feet 4 inches above floor level the original second- 



