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and 187 do not continue into 293 and 294, adjoining, and we made 

 no observation in Rooms 188 and 189. A new feature, however, 

 occurs outside the northeast corner of Room 187. There, built upon 

 merging units of the Complex, are the 5-inch-high remains of a 

 boxlike structure 55 inches long and averaging 18 inches wide. A 

 second such receptacle, complete and of fourth-type masonry, stands 

 7^ feet to the east against the middle outside wall of Room 186 (pi. 42, 

 right). Its external measurements are 45 inches by an average of 19 ; 

 inside, 27 by 12. It was floored by a single sandstone slab laid 

 directly upon the underlying foundations and was ceiled 15 inches 

 above with slab-covered small poles the ends of which had been in- 

 serted into the ruin wall. Whatever its intended function the box 

 contained only a handful of miscellaneous deer and small mammal 

 bones, two Old Bonitian black-on- white sherds, and an ironstone 

 concretion. 



These merging foundations unite with and abut others of their 

 kind in an intricate pattern I could not unravel to my entire satisfac- 

 tion. A number of parallel east- west units, 22-38 inches wide and 

 53-58 inches high, seem to stand forth in a dominating way; lesser 

 foundations, 14-24 inches wide and 6-20 inches high, join them from 

 north and south and all top off at the same general level. Irrespective 

 of differences in width and height, all were built either on the under- 

 lying silt pavement previously mentioned or on its 20-24-inch blanket 

 of blown sand. Working among them one gains an impression the 

 broader, more substantial units may have been constructed first, the 

 others following. 



Three east-west foundations exposed by our 5-foot-wide trench 

 north of Room 184 extend to and under the west side of Hillside 

 Ruin (fig. 11). The first of these, 15 inches wide by 16 inches 

 high, passes under Hillside 26 inches from its southwest corner and 

 2 feet 10 inches above the underlying silt pavement. Constructional 

 debris 20-22 inches deep lay upon the foundation and was, in turn, 

 buried under stratified sand that had piled up against the smooth- 

 faced stones of Hillside (pi. 47, upper). 



HILLSIDE RUIN 



What we called "Hillside Ruin" is a fairly late settlement that 

 extends from a sandstone outcropping at the end of the Braced-up 

 Cliff terrace eastward approximately 300 feet to another outcropping. 

 It probably has since received other names from other sources. 

 Simpson (1850, p. 81) barely mentions the site; Jackson (1878, 



