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of it farther west, where fourth-type masonry dovetails into second- 

 type (pi. 53), was defeated by the westernmost extension of the 

 abandoned Northeast Foundation Complex. Preservation of this 

 abutting 22-inch-high section, its top 54 inches above the foundation 

 of Room 297, seemed more important at the time than discovery of 

 the point where its successor foundation began. 



But the fact remains that this successor extends eastward at the 

 same level as the 22-inch-high section and abuts other units of the 

 abandoned complex as they continue under the new outside wall 

 and end, subfloor, against the plastered masonry of an earlier third- 

 type exterior. 



We made no effort to follow every extension continuing from 

 the outside but most of them are represented on figure 11. Those 

 underlying Room 186, at the east end of the high north wall as it 

 stood prior to collapse of the Braced-up Cliff are especially illuminat- 

 ing. Here a one-layer brown adobe floor had been spread directly 

 upon six units of the old intrusive foundations. Three of these lie 

 east and west ; three, in the opposite direction. 



Most prominent of the six averages 31 inches wide by 17 inches 

 high; its south face emerges from under the northeast wall 2 feet 

 from the east corner and passes under the northwest end 18 inches 

 from the west corner. Paralleling this principal unit is a second, 25 

 inches wide at its northwest end and 29 inches wide at the other. 

 Where this foundation continues under the northeast wall of 186 

 the face of a third unit takes off to disappear beneath the northwest 

 wall 13 inches from its north corner. Here, joining the third unit 

 and the second, is a block of foundation stonework 10 inches wide 

 against the third unit and 15 inches wide against the second. 



Three lesser subfloor foundations extend southwestwardly from 

 the principal one, two of them to continue under the east half of 

 the southwest side while the other abuts an earlier underlying wall. 

 The first of these three, 24 inches wide, joins the principal east- 

 west foundation 21 inches from its east end and extends under the 

 southwest wall 26 inches from the south corner. The second unit, 

 which averages 22 inches wide by 14 inches high, joins the main 

 east- west member 10 feet 4 inches from its east end and continues 

 under the southwest wall at a point 7 feet 5 inches from the south 

 comer. It is the westernmost of these three lesser foundations that 

 abuts the plastered face of an older, plastered and partly razed sub- 

 floor wall before the latter continues westwardly presumably to under- 

 lie the third-type wall now separating Rooms 187 and 293. 



