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top off 5 inches below floor level. That on the east is offset 2 inches 

 while the other three are actually inset, 5 inches at the south and 2 

 inches at the west and north — variations that reveal the casualness 

 of Late Bonitian foundation builders. 



A test pit 9 feet 2 inches deep in the northeast corner of Room 225 

 disclosed five silt strata, each overlain by village waste and sand of 

 diverse character and each sloping to the south and east. From that 

 pit we gathered 548 miscellaneous potsherds, mostly Old Bonitian 

 varieties, but 30 (5.5 percent) were Early Hachure and 16 (2.9 

 percent). Corrugated-coil Culinary. The uppermost of those five 

 silt layers continued eastward under Room 177 and beyond; on it, 

 38 inches below the floor of 225, we noted the firm imprint of a right 

 human foot, 8 inches long and 4 inches across the ball. 



Sheer curiosity demanded further inquiry outside Room 177. Here, 

 13 inches below its 20-inch-high foundation and about 5 feet out 

 from the wall, we came upon an unplastered, pot-shaped storage cist 

 50 inches deep by 21 inches in diameter at the mouth and 46 inches 

 in maximum inside diameter. The bottom was scarred by various 

 rootlike passages leading downward in diverse directions. 



Just for the record, two ventilators appear in the broken east wall 

 of Room 177 5 feet 2 inches above its foundation. The latter is 

 inset 3 inches, and piled against it were 10 inches or more of mortar 

 droppings overlain by stratified sand 5 feet deep next the wall but 

 increasing to a depth of 8 feet a short distance to the east. At Sta- 

 tion 2, 500 feet farther out, only 10-12 inches of blown sand overlie 

 units of the abandoned foundation series exposed at that point 

 (fig. 11). 



Room 177 and the two inner rows adjoining it on the west are part 

 of the fourth-type addition that extends north to 184, 185 and beyond. 

 In the south corner of Room 186 a door 28 inches wide by 37 inches 

 high (to eight 2-inch lintel poles) gives access to Room 261. Although 

 the sill slab is only 27 inches across, it lies 20 inches above floor in 186 

 and 25 inches in Room 261, a difference of 5 inches. Both the wall 

 separating these two rooms and the block of masonry filling the north- 

 west angle of 261 to ceiling level (pi. 52, right) are of fourth-type 

 construction and stand upon a one-layer adobe floor that immediately 

 overlies units intruding from the abandoned Northeast Foundation 

 Complex. 



One of these foundation units crosses 261 subfloor to abut its 

 southwest wall just where a solid section was added to parallel the 

 northeast side and thus begin a second row curving southeast to 



