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by Pepper (1920, fig. 89, p. 258) ; another T-shaped door, now 

 sealed by large blocks of friable sandstone, formerly breached the 

 rebuilt north wall and provided access to Room 234B. Also, there 

 was still another T-shaped doorway through the rebuilt north wall 

 of 229B, or the outline of such a doorway, for its jambs were not 

 preserved on the opposite side, in 23 IB, when Kiva C was elevated 

 to its present position. 



Construction and reconstruction of Kiva C not only forced the 

 abandonment of Rooms 228 and 229 but also compelled the abandon- 

 ment or alteration of several other dwellings hereabout as witness 

 Rooms 231 and 234, two of those razed to allow for the original 

 Kiva C. In representing some of these structures as built of fourth- 

 type masonry and others of third-type, I again illustrate the incon- 

 sistency of my sequential classification. When Late Bonitian archi- 

 tects razed one structure to provide for another, the characteristics 

 of the razed walls often were unconsciously introduced into the new 

 stonework. Although the masonry of Kiva C is predominantly of 

 laminate sandstone, dressed blocks of friable sandstone are conspicu- 

 ous in its south and east arcs. So, too, with Rooms 228 and 229. 

 Their walls are of fourth-type masonry, much of it banded, but 

 their quartering partitions are predominantly of friable sandstone 

 salvaged from razed second-type buildings. 



The former T-shaped door between Rooms 228B and 227B is 

 more or less duplicated in the first story. Both had been reduced 

 piecemeal to a doorway of standard size and then completely closed. 

 My own notes, from 228A, are not entirely in accord with those 

 Ruppert reported from the opposite side and it is obvious that he, 

 too, was uncertain as to the order in which the several reductions 

 had been made. As he described it from 227A, this great doorway 

 had a 7-pole lintel at a height of 7 feet 8 inches. The broad upper 

 part, 28^ inches above the floor and 7 inches from the southwest 

 corner of the room, measured 45 inches wide by 51^ inches high ; the 

 lower part, 23 inches wide, had jambs extending below floor level. 



Apparently this hugh T-shaped doorway was reduced in two sepa- 

 rate stages : ( 1 ) to an opening 26 inches wide by 3 feet high, its sill at 

 a height of 42^ inches, and then (2) was further reduced to a width 

 of 15 inches when secondary jambs were introduced to support a door- 

 slab placed when from 228A. Sometime in this reduction process a 

 blocking stone 9 inches wide by 2 inches thick was left protruding 

 5 inches to provide a step 14^ inches above the floor. Finally, the 

 15 -inch- wide opening with its secondary jambs was permanently 



