Il8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



Still farther west, in the far corner of the East Court, we were 

 all agreeably surprised to discover part of an Old Bonitian kiva — a 

 kiva which the Late Bonitian priesthood had pre-empted as a site 

 desired for their own third-type Kiva 2-C. Because that old structure 

 was built in the characteristic P. II tradition of the Old Bonitians I 

 have chosen to describe it in Chapter II (fig. 3). 



A limited test in the East Court corner outside Rooms 164 and 289 

 showed the latter to have been built upon the last court level while 

 the 164 wall was based 10 inches lower. Temporary fires had burned 

 on that same surface, at 10 inches; below the 6- foot level, water- 

 reworked constructional debris and blown sand comprised the visible 

 fill. 



South of the court-dividing wall, outside third-type Room 150 

 but continuing under it, were two pairs of partially razed walls 

 of second-type construction. The external masonry of 150 extends 

 only 17 inches below the latest recognizable East Court surface, 

 and since it overlies the two pairs, obviously was erected some time 

 after their abandonment. Together, their walls average 15 inches 

 thick and 31 inches apart ; a like distance separates the first pair from 

 the second (fig. 4) . Their associated floors at depths of 5 feet 6 inches 

 and 6 feet 4 inches, respectively, were covered by a purposeful fill of 

 sandstone spalls and shale fragments. 



Although these two pairs continued westward beneath Room 150 

 their eastward ends were abruptly joined by blocks of abutting ma- 

 sonry 9 feet and 10 feet 10 inches outside the room. Beyond the end- 

 blocks and separated from them by open passageways 17 inches 

 wide in one instance and 21 inches in the other, were in-line extensions 

 of the two pairs. 



These four end-blocked pairs with passageways between are all 

 very much alike. Their paired walls average 15 inches wide and 

 31 inches from each other. Each pair stands upon a trampled sur- 

 face at depth of 5^ feet (three cases) or 6 feet 4 inches below the 

 latest Court surface. In each instance the paired walls had been 

 razed at heights varying from 22 inches to 50 inches and were packed 

 between with broken sandstone and shale chips. In at least one 

 instance the paired walls had been built in dug ditches and the space 

 between ditch bank and stonework filled with fragments of dried 

 wall adobe and shale. In all four cases the paired walls were finished 

 on the inside only, three of them in a coarse but undeniable version of 

 second-type masonry while the fourth was indefinite. 



About 5 feet to the south, where the 9-inch-wide foundation offset 



