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The earlier court surface that supports all these ancient walls, 

 razed and otherwise, slopes perceptibly southward and apparently 

 passes beneath the bordering south rooms at a depth of 20-25 inches. 

 A test trench next Room 155 failed to disclose a north foundation 

 but bared successive accumulations of constructional and occupa- 

 tional waste. On these successive levels, sections of razed masonry 

 occurred repeatedly, many of third-type composition but all seemed 

 quite as meaningless as those we had previously encountered north 

 of the late cross-court wall. 



Some of these older East Court walls, paired and otherwise, con- 

 tinue beneath intervening rooms and out, subsurface, into the West 

 Court. In some instances they may be identified by remnants of surviv- 

 ing masonry ; in other cases identification is uncertain or impossible. In 

 some instances I have illogically allowed depth to influence my 

 judgment; hence, perhaps, the greater amount of subsurface 

 West Court construction represented on figure 5. But it is instruc- 

 tive to note that here, as in the East Court, walls of second-type 

 masonry generally rise from surfaces 3 or 4 feet lower than those 

 of third-type. 



Except for Old Bonitian Rooms 329 and 330, the West Court is 

 rimmed with Late Bonitian masonry and mostly at or above ceiling 

 level of the Old Bonitian dwellings. Beginning with Room 328 and 

 continuing north to Room 28 the Late Bonitians built houses of 

 second-type masonry at the second story level; some of these, as 

 Rooms 28B, 55, 57, and Kiva Z, were later wholly or partially re- 

 built with fourth-type stonework. Intermural steps were provided 

 to enter ground floor Room 28 after 28B, 55 and 57 were erected 

 above. A partially razed second-type kiva underlies Room 324 and 

 another underlies Kiva 67. 



In 1924 while clearing the West Court in anticipation of the 

 next season, we came upon a very late double fireplace built on the 

 last recognizable Court surface just outside the northeast corner of 

 Old Bonitian Room 330 (pi. 17, upper). Masonry-lined and plas- 

 tered, that fireplace originally measured 3 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 7 

 inches but subsequently had been divided by a 2- foot partition and 

 continued in use. 



With that last recognizable West Court surface only a foot or 

 so below roof level of Rooms 329 and 330 we decided to make an 

 exploratory test to see what lay beneath. On a former occupation 

 level at depth of 14 inches we came upon another, nearby fireplace 

 lined chiefly with metate fragments, measuring 26 by 42 inches and 



