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the north side and five on the south. All eight had been cleared by 

 the Hyde Expeditions prior to 1900 and we have no contemporary 

 data regarding the operation. All were of relatively late construction. 

 Each room overlies the remains of earlier structures; each appears 

 to have been a sacrifice to religious necessity; each was a 3-walled 

 room. In no instance did I see positive evidence of a fourth wall 

 upon the kiva stonework. 



Only in Room 148 was there the possibility of such a fourth 

 side — a remnant now 14 inches high where it abuts the east- wall 

 foundation and is floored over from there to the top of the stairway 

 and the broken edge of the kiva masonry. Opposite at its west end, 

 that possible south- wall remnant is covered by 3 inches of adobe 

 pavement ; an earlier floor at depth of 25 inches had been cut through 

 apparently when the kiva was built, and the ends of two 5-inch logs 

 lie embedded in the kiva stonework. So far as I could judge, and 

 against my better judgment, Room 148 had opened directly into 

 Kiva A. 



Of the eight peripheral rooms only one, 318, was provided with a 

 fireplace; only two, 317 and 318, were connected by an open door- 

 way. All other doors, inside and out, had been blocked with building 

 stones. 



Just beyond the north end of Room 150 and a foot above its floor 

 an 8-foot-long concavity in the abutting East Court masonry evi- 

 dences construction of the latter against a previously standing con- 

 vex curve. Opposite, on the west side of Kiva A, wall masonry in 

 1921 measured 11 feet 5 inches high. If that masonry formerly rose 

 to ceiling level of Rooms 144 and 146 the bordering West Court wall 

 would have been continuous throughout and would have stood ap- 

 proximately 7 feet above my estimated roof level of Kiva A (Judd, 

 1922a, p. 116). And such height on one side would normally require 

 a compensating height on the other. 



Nowhere in my 1921 notes do I find any fact to justify the thought 

 that walls 16 to 18 feet high once enclosed Great Kiva A. With the 

 possible exception of 148, the peripheral rooms apparently stood open 

 and unroofed. Despite the bulk of excavation waste thrown from 

 them into the kiva and partially represented by the piles of stone we 

 salvaged for repair work (pi. 71, upper), I doubt that the kiva wall 

 ever stood more than 2 or 3 feet above floor level of those rooms. 



Room 148 is the exception. Architecturally, it remains enigmatic, 

 unsolvable. Its floor lies 8 feet 3 inches above that of Kiva A, 16 

 inches below the Kiva A ceiling as represented by the 3 roofing poles 



