NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD I47 



p. 442) describes it as "a mass of ruins measuring 135 by 75 feet" 

 with two circular rooms in the middle and an east-side wall about 

 300 feet long. We did not find this latter, our examination of the 

 site being restricted to three narrow exploratory trenches at the 

 west end, partial exposure of the irregular south front, and limited 

 examination of one kiva. 



This kiva, situated near the east sandstone outcropping, has 

 an indicated above-bench diameter of 24 feet 8 inches and its masonry, 

 as I described it at the time, approaches but does not quite equal 

 our third type at Pueblo Bonito. Elsewhere, what little Hillside 

 Ruin masonry we laid bare is decidedly non-Bonitian and rests 

 upon a 7-inch-high adobe foundation that overlies extended units 

 of our Northeast Foundation Complex. Hillside Ruin, later than 

 Pueblo Bonito, stands upon a low elevation overlooking the network 

 of foundations presently under consideration. I believe it to have 

 been relatively short-lived and it clearly has been stripped of accessible 

 building stones. Surface sherds I gathered are few in number and 

 the black-on-white fragments are best described as proto-Mesa Verde. 



PRINCIPAL EAST-WEST FOUNDATIONS 



One of the major east-west foundations, 28 inches wide and 33 

 inches high where it abuts, subfloor, the inner west corner of Room 

 185, passes under the outside wall of that room and continues east- 

 ward more than 200 feet. This foundation and others of its kind are 

 joined by lesser units to outline an assemblage of room-size areas 

 and what obviously was intended as the foundation for a circular 

 kiva. A test outside the southeast arc of this latter exposed a founda- 

 tion angle both sides of which were built upon a smooth silt surface 

 at depth of 4 feet 5 inches; a foot or more of adobe droppings lay 

 upon that surface and stratified sand above, the upper 2 inches dark 

 with humus. 



This kiva outline, lacking finished masonry inside and out, is 

 bisected by another major foundation that extends eastward past the 

 jutting front of Hillside Ruin to an end we did not seek. In its 

 course, however, this major foundation, here 58 inches high, is 

 overlain by another kiva outline whose overall width of 7 feet 

 suggests both bench and outer wall. The presumed bench face rests 

 upon a 2-inch-thick adobe floor, 3 inches of sand, and an underlying 

 thin layer of shale. Cut into the floor is a typical Chaco-type 

 ventilator duct, 23 inches in both width and depth by 7 feet long, 

 neatly lined with laminate sandstone. Its associated shaft, of third- 



