NO. I ARCHITECTURE OF PUEBLO BONITO — JUDD l6l 



may have been a floor, or work surface, 9 feet 8 inches below ceil- 

 ing level of Room 242, next on the east. Northwest corner masonry 

 still stands 19 feet 3 inches above that floor (pi. 38, right). Both 

 right and left, salvaged building blocks are to be seen, some protrud- 

 ing at irregular intervals as though to anchor the new stonework to 

 the fill. 



A 10-inch log, its ends embedded north and south, parallels the 

 west end of 239 at a height of 5 feet 8 inches. Two 4-inch poles 

 appear in the north wall at 10 feet with no seatings opposite and a 

 row of five comparable pole holes, each with slab lintel, appears 4 feet 

 higher, again without seatings in the stonework opposite. At a height 

 of 8 feet 4 inches above floor level a slab-topped offset separates 

 the external stonework of original Kiva D from that of its successor. 



At the north end of Room 242, which adjoins 239, the floor of an 

 abandoned Late Bonitian second-type kiva lies at a depth of 9^ feet. 

 Opposite, at the south end, a test to a silt layer 1 foot deeper revealed 

 a succession of wind- and water-borne deposits on one of which, at 

 depth of 8 feet 8 inches, stood a 4-foot-high bank of clean sand as 

 smooth and vertical as though piled against a former wall. This 

 feature continued eastward beyond room limits and was paralleled 

 at a distance of 32 inches by another like bank. 



In Room 244 a second and later coat of west-wall plaster rounds 

 off to a floor at depth of 31 inches and built upon this, paralleling 

 the west side at a distance of 2^ feet, is a 20-inch-high section of 

 fourth-type masonry. A like section, perhaps laid at the same time, 

 underlies Room 256, next on the north, and continues eastward under 

 257 and 181 and thence to the outside. Work surfaces at depths of 

 12 and 27 inches presumably reflect construction of this fourth-type 

 wall and the later north and east sides of the room. 



Like others of its period, Room 244 had been stripped of its 

 furnishings, but three beautifully inlaid bone scrapers, perhaps a 

 deliberate sacrifice by the departing owners, were left side by side 

 at midfloor (Judd, 1954, p. 148). Over them was a thin layer of 

 blown sand and then the charred remains of three pairs of east- west 

 beams, the pine poles, and the cedar splints of the former ceiling. 

 On that same floor bare-footed builders had left two imprints, one in 

 the southwest corner and another in the northeast. The latter, for 

 the right foot, measured 8^ inches long by 3|, a bit longer but nar- 

 rower than the imprint we had noted at a depth of 38 inches in 

 Room 225. 



A contemporary of Room 244 is Room 256, adjoining, and 256 



