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southeast quarters of both rooms disclosed possible work surfaces at 

 depths of 14 inches, sloping down to the east as they overlay 2 feet 

 or more of constructional debris. 



When the east half of 228 was first excavated, three superb pine 

 beams were still in place, the east-west partition built up to and 

 around them. Two of the three were paired close beside the north- 

 south quartering wall, while the third lay next to the plastered east 

 side. With no visible indication of decay, the three show advanta- 

 geously in Pepper's excellent but unpublished prints, Numbers 249- 

 251, but subsequently the second-story floor was demolished, the 

 paired beams were sawed off and the third, pulled out. Samples we 

 took from remaining portions of the pair, each 11^ inches in diameter, 

 gave a tree-ring date of 1073 + for that on the east (JPB, No. 56), 

 but its companion (JPB No. 57) was too complacent to read. Empty 

 beam holes suggest that the west half of the 228 ceiling was simi- 

 larly supported. 



In the floor beneath the pair and close against the south end of 

 the room, two empty postholes lined with slab fragments on edge 

 mark the positions of former posts 8 and 9 inches in diameter and 

 Pepper's unpublished negative 249 shows a comparable post in situ 

 under the south end of the east beam. Thus the anticipated, or 

 proven, weight of the upper living rooms — portions of third-story 

 walls are still present — was too great for three, or possibly six, north- 

 south 1 1-inch beams. 



Two magnificent dwellings were here sacrificed to architectural 

 requirements in the redesigning of Kiva C. Portions of the north 

 end in both rooms and the wall between were torn out to make way 

 for the bulging convexity of the reconstructed kiva. Then the north- 

 west quarter of 228 and the adjoining quarter of 229 were filled with 

 debris of demolition to provide a base at the second-story floor level 

 for the stonework, 6 feet wide and about half as thick, enclosing the 

 new ventilator shaft. 



Reconstruction is also evident in the second-story rooms. The 

 north wall of 228B replaces the original and overhangs by 16 inches 

 its counterpart, also a substitution, at the north end of 228 A. Al- 

 though patchwork is to be seen here and there, plaster on the orig- 

 inal fourth-type masonry and former doorways indicates that both 

 228B and 229B continued in use with little or no inconvenience 

 caused by the jutting ventilator stonework. There were the diago- 

 nal door connecting Rooms 228B and 173B (pi. 15, left) ; the much 

 altered east-wall T-shaped doorway figured and partially described 



