NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO JUDD I33 



15-inch stub had been covered by the sand fill that extends south at 

 north bench level. 



This under-Court Great Kiva, 63 feet in diameter and averaging 

 10 feet 7 inches deep, had been built in an enormous pit expressly 

 dug to receive it. Subsequently it was demolished, its hand-dressed 

 wall stones were saved for use elsewhere, and its internal fixtures 

 or at least what remained of them were buried under village waste 

 that filled the hole and formed a new Court surface. 



When that huge structure was erected its south wall quite by 

 chance rose just outside a second P. I pit-house (No. 1 on B-B'), 

 its floor at depth of 11 feet 9 inches. The second stratigraphic sec- 

 tion cut by Roberts and Amsden through preconstruction West Court 

 rubbish pierced that same pit-house floor. 



A few feet to the south our 1925 trench exposed a pair of parallel 

 walls, without foundations but averaging 16 inches wide, a foot high, 

 27 inches apart, faced on the inside only and the adobe pavement 

 between 34 inches below Court surface. Fourteen feet beyond this 

 pair is another, likewise without foundations but finished on both 

 sides, their connecting floor, 23 inches below the surface. We have 

 no explanation for these two pairs, almost wholly devoid of identify- 

 ing masonry but nevertheless considered most likely to have been of 

 fairly late construction (fig. 5). 



The 12 feet of layered under-Court rubbish probed by Amsden 

 and Roberts slopes down and to the south and doubtless continues, 

 although its successive strata do not conform with those revealed 

 by our trench outside Room 136, only 50 feet distant. In that trench, 

 10 feet below the present surface, we noted a lens of water-reworked 

 occupational debris sandwiched between beds of indurated sand and 

 sandy clay — the course of a former flood water channel. On the 

 opposite side of that channel the great bulk of the West Refuse 

 Mound eventually rose 20 feet above, as described in Chapter VIII. 

 Nine feet of sand, silt, and waste from Pueblo Bonito accumulated 

 in that floodwater channel before the foundations of Room 136 were 

 begun. 



The Hyde Expeditions had made various West Court excavations. 

 They cleared Kiva 67, 25^ feet in diameter by 15 feet deep, with 

 its six pilasters each containing a ceremonial offering (Pepper, 1920, 

 pp. 251-254). They also cleared an arc of Room 26 and exposed a 

 single pilaster that had an offering on top but no receptacle. In 

 our West Court explorations we encountered nothing resembling the 

 published description of Room 26. The two sand-filled trenches 



