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type masonry and 22 inches square inside, stands 15^ feet from 

 the north end of the duct and intrudes upon the incomplete outline 

 of another and earlier kiva. 



Outside the first of these two kiva foundations, but inside one 

 presumably intended for its east enclosing wall, is a rectangular 

 firebox, 29 by 26 inches and 25 inches deep. Its slab lining rises 

 full height on the east side but is topped on the other three by 

 8-10 inches of masonry. Despite the foundation between, this sunken 

 firebox probably was associated with the six next to be considered, 

 five of them quadrangular and one circular. 



These six (pi. 47, lower) were ranged along the south side of 

 the major east- west foundation that underlies the Chaco-type kiva 

 outline noted above. The single circular firebox measures 43 inches 

 deep by 42 inches in diameter at the top and 50 inches at the bottom, 

 while the other five vary in size from 33 by 38 inches (No. 3) to 41 

 by 54 inches (No. 2) and in depth from 16 inches (No. 5) to 29 

 inches (No. 1). All six are rudely constructed with walls 4-12 inches 

 thick that top off at approximately the same level as the east-west 

 foundation. Excess mortar inside the five rectangular pits was 

 smeared over the stonework; that in the circular one was finger- 

 pressed between stones. All six were filled with sand reddened by 

 heat and containing minute particles of charcoal but no discernible 

 wood ash ; there was no fusing of mortar and no fragment of pottery 

 or bone in either. My guess is that the entire group, seven in number, 

 was in some fashion related to Hillside Ruin, but this is purely a 

 guess. 



A test pit between Nos. 2 and 3 disclosed a smooth adobe 

 surface at depth of 58 inches and, above it, the ever-present 

 constructional debris and blown sand. In the partially explored 

 area immediately to the south we happened upon a small contemporary 

 dump of this constructional waste, but I could see no point in 

 searching further. All the foundations we had previously uncovered 

 were pretty much alike. They were built of mud mortar and roughly 

 spalled chunks of friable sandstone ; they were foundations and noth- 

 ing else. Here and there a bit of finished masonry is to be seen, the 

 visible effort of an impatient mason. But nowhere in the whole 

 Complex did we find an item of cultural interest other than oc- 

 casional discarded hammerstones and potsherds. Of these only one 

 seemed to justify a catalog number, the fragment of a black-on-white 

 female effigy with half-inch black squares on the belly (U.S.N. M. 

 No. 336089). 



