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Plate 46, lower, illustrates this and other features beneath the floor 

 of Room 186. The partially razed corner of Room 267 as originally 

 constructed rises vertically 52 inches above its 11-inch-high founda- 

 tion and is abutted from the west by the partially razed and plastered 

 wall noted above. Built against this latter is the westernmost (under 

 the gloves) of the 3 lesser units that extend southwest from the 

 principal east-west subfloor foundation. Above all is the present 

 southwest side of Room 186, its eastern half resting upon a contem- 

 porary foundation built against the east angle of the old 267 corner. 



These several walls and foundations, above and below floor level 

 in 186, are variously oriented, but this fact apparently meant nothing 

 to the Late Bonitian builders. The plastered wall abutting the west 

 face of the former 267 corner, for example, lies N. 62° W., a differ- 

 ence of 2° from the later wall above. 



All these descriptive details may seem repetitious, complicated, 

 and confusing. But, in trying to convey some understanding of the 

 abandoned foundation complex and the manner in which many of its 

 units continued under the outer wall of the village to end against 

 earlier walls within, I find myself quite unable to avoid confusion 

 and repetition. Consequently I deliberately omit much of our sub- 

 floor data from 186 and adjacent rooms and will let figures 5 and 11 

 tell the story as best they can. 



We traced some of these abandoned foundations beneath the floor 

 of Room 187 and found them ending against its south, or southwest, 

 wall which was originally built of third-type masonry. We made no 

 observation in Rooms 188 and 189 but one of the subfloor units in 

 Room 184 continues independently southward to 175. Throughout 

 its length this subfloor unit averages 19 inches high but its width 

 varies from 24 inches in Room 259, to 30 inches at the south end of 

 Room 243, to 26 inches in 225, and 24 inches where it meets the south 

 foundation in 175. 



Here, at its south end, this long foundation unit, presumably one 

 of the abandoned outside series, rests upon 2 feet of clayey sand 

 covering a smooth silt surface. Forty-seven inches lower, or 7^ feet 

 below floor level, we came upon a second silt surface in which were 

 embedded a number of miscellaneous potsherds not specifically iden- 

 tified in my notes. That lower silt stratum and the 4 feet of village 

 waste that overlay it undoubtedly mark an extension of the trash- 

 filled channel fronting the pueblo (figs. 7 and 24, lower). 



In Room 225, adjoining 175 on the north, foundations vary in 

 height from 10 inches on the south to 17 inches on the east but all 



