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rubbish carried out and discarded at the edge of the 10- foot-deep 

 floodwater channel that formerly passed Room 153. 



The south walls of Rooms 153 and 154 stand upon a 17-inch-high 

 foundation and outside, approximately at floor level, is a thin silt 

 layer apparently deposited since that foundation was built. Twenty- 

 three inches lower another, more obvious silt surface extends south 

 a few feet and then dips sharply away from the ruin. At a distance 

 of 15 feet and a depth of 6, that second surface is overlain by mixed 

 village waste, including fragments of Old Bonitian pottery, all slop- 

 ing southward and into, presumably, the one-time floodwater channel. 



Room 153 abuts the east side of the stonework enclosing third- 

 type Kiva B and Room 142 abuts its southeast corner. The east wall 

 of 142, which is 23 inches thick and rises from a flagstone pavement 

 about 3 feet below floor level, may have been third-type originally but 

 it had been rebuilt with fourth-type masonry. This latter also ap- 

 pears to identify a puzzling outside complex of foundation-like stone- 

 work apparently built upon the upper silt layer, that at Room 143 

 floor level. 



On this same layer, 5 feet 5 inches east of Room 142, we uncovered 

 a masonry-lined repository 14 inches in diameter by 18 inches deep 

 and once covered by a sandstone tablet with an 8-inch hole in the 

 middle. The east half of this tablet and a corresponding portion of 

 the repository had been broken away and were missing. A few feet 

 beyond we came upon a rectangular pit, depth undetermined, presum- 

 ably one of those dug in interest of the Hyde Expeditions (Pepper, 

 ibid., p. 23). 



The 23-inch-thick east wall of Room 142 is square-ended 15 inches 

 outside the room and there rests upon a large flat sandstone slab 

 that is supported all around by fourth-type masonry. Although I 

 have sought to locate this and nearby stonework on our plan of the 

 pueblo I have no explanation to offer and only limited description. 



To the eastward. Rooms 345 and 346, so-called, are remnants of 

 indiscriminate stonework erected in the lee of fourth-type Rooms 

 156-158 and the jutting corner of 159. Their associated floors lie 

 5-8 inches below their north-wall foundations ; the partition between, 

 10 inches thick and foundationless, may have been raised as a buttress 

 since it follows the outward slant of the Room 157 south wall. 



Despite the fact I have represented the westward extension of 

 this latest addition as ending with Rooms 142 and 153 (fig. 6), 

 evidence of repair and reconstruction is to be seen all about, both 

 east and west. It is all Late Bonitian in point of time and again 



