NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD 121 



filled with wood ash. Earlier Court levels were noted at depths of 

 29 inches, 38 inches, 5 feet 2 inches, and 6 feet 7. 



At the 38-inch level several decayed poles 2-3 inches in diameter 

 protruded 2^ or 3 feet from the Room 329 exterior. They were 

 overlain by strips of split cedar and cedar bark but were supported, 

 strangely enough, by timbers paralleling the 329 exterior. Beneath 

 these latter were other poles, decayed and broken, and quantities of 

 vegetal matter, sandstone spalls and fragments of dried wall adobe. 

 Deeper, on a surface at depth of 6 feet 7 inches, were 9 posts or post- 

 holes, 3-5 inches in diameter (one was 8 inches), irregularly spaced 

 but averaging 14 inches from the Old Bonitian wall. This feature 

 is probably to be identified as an extension of the post-and-mud wall 

 represented in Rooms 327, 328, and the northeast side of 329. 



In contrast with this Old Bonitian stonework, Late Bonitian 

 masonry now bordering the West Court was begun on or near the 

 last occupation level. The existing east side, for example, a mixture 

 of third- and banded fourth-type masonry that had toppled outward, 

 and which we repaired in 1924 (pi. 36, upper), replaced one whose 

 partially razed remains underlie Rooms 143 and 144. Blocks of 

 dressed friable sandstone are numerous in that earlier wall the char- 

 acter of which is seen more clearly at its former southeast comer, 

 as preserved in Room 140 (pi. 33, right). Successive court surfaces 

 and walls that replaced others were encountered repeatedly through- 

 out the West Court. Some walls are positively of second-type con- 

 struction, some are third-type and some are foundations without 

 means of identification. 



A sturdy wall of second-type masonry, 23 inches thick and razed 

 at an average height of 33 inches, emerges from under Room 146 

 on an associated floor 6 feet below the last West Court level, extends 

 northwest 31 feet 5 inches to an acute angle, thence east 3 feet 9 

 inches where it was demolished presumably upon construction of 

 Room 34. Paralleling that sub-Court wall at a distance of 3 feet 

 10 inches and at the same depth is another of like construction both 

 ends of which unite with contemporary walls that turn sharply west 

 and were razed after a few feet. 



From the middle west side of this same parallel member, two 

 abutting sections likewise extend west a few feet and also were 

 completely razed. The second of these two provided both the base 

 for a solid triangle of second-type masonry and the south jamb, 

 now 13 inches high, of a former door in the western member of the 

 second-type pair (fig. 4). About 5^ feet west of that solid triangle 



