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side of Room 117. They spread an adobe floor over all the foundation 

 stonework previously laid, replaced with good third-type masonry 

 the second-type stonework stripped from the east side in anticipation 

 of the 6-room tie-in, and built a new south wall upon that floor. 

 Here, once again, the distinguishing characteristics of second- and 

 third-type masonry stand in juxtaposition (pi. 37, lower). A board- 

 framed south door of recent date probably marks the position of an 

 original, connecting with Room 118. 



A narrow test pit in the southeast corner of Room 117 showed 

 its older east side masonry continuing 3 feet 10 inches below floor 

 level to a 21 -inch-high foundation — figures that agree closely with 

 those outside Room 115 and southward where the same old second- 

 type wall cuts through the northeast corner of Room 105 and sub- 

 floor across 25, 106, and 336. 



As reported in the previous chapter these three rooms, 25, 106, 

 and 336, are third-type dwellings erected upon the partially razed 

 walls of two second-type structures that were among those built by 

 the Late Bonitians to conceal the irregularities of Old Bonito. A 

 difference of approximately 4 feet separates the floor of second-type 

 Room 25 from its successor. In 106 and 336 some of the subfloor 

 walls are early while others are late. Third-type only was represented 

 under the floors of nearby dwellings. 



Room 105, adjoining 25 on the west, is one of excellent third-type 

 stonework and was included in the constructional program that began 

 at the blocked west door of Room 115, replacing the 6-room unit 

 outside 117. Part of that unit was overlain by the foundationless 

 remains of a small kiva whose third-type masonry, reduced to 6 inches, 

 looks no older than that of Room 105 itself. Other third-type kivas, 

 large and small, underlie third-type Rooms 128 and 129, Kivas 

 V and W (fig. 5). 



That beneath the floors of Rooms 128, 129, 340, and 341 is a 

 particularly fine example of its period. Its masonry, 2 feet thick 

 and plastered, consists of dressed sandstone, both friable and 

 laminate. Its bench, originally 24 inches wide by 29 inches high, 

 had been stripped of all facing stones. Nine feet above bench level 

 a 13-inch-wide encircling collar once held the distal ends of an 

 upper layer of roofing poles. Despite its depth, the kiva was more 

 than half filled with constructional debris. 



At 7 feet 3 inches beneath Kiva V our test trench came upon the 

 floor of a predecessor, its stonework likewise third- type but razed 

 at a height of 30 inches. Remnants of a contemporary kiva, its 



