APPENDIX B 

 EXCAVATION NOTES, PUEBLO BONITO ^ 



Room 

 6 



Ceiling : 



Floor : 

 Doorway : 



Hatchway ; 

 14a Doorways; 



(above 

 14b) 



Cottonwood and pine beams ; end beams re- 

 moved, replaced with cottonwood branches 

 and willows, leaving 6" sq. opening in each 

 corner; beam holes plugged with mud. 

 Paved with flagstones; sandstone slabs 12- 

 20" h. at wall base. 



SE. wall : 3' 9" above floor, 20" w. x 26" h. x 

 24" across sill ; 4 cottonwood sticks form 

 lintel. Projecting wall slabs form steps 22" 

 and 27" above floor; third step, 5" h. pro- 

 vided by post 4i" dia. set in floor 8" from 

 wall. 



SE. wall: 4' 3" from SW. corner, 28" above 

 floor, 16" w. at top, 18" w. at sill x 26" h. x 

 26" across sill ; wall 19" thick ; 3 lintel poles 

 2" dia. 



N. wall: 29" from NW. comer, 32" above 

 floor, ca. 7" dia. ; filled and plastered over. 

 SW. comer : 5x7"; adobe rim enclosed slab 

 cover now missing. NW. and NE. corner 

 openings closed with slabs ; that in SE. with 

 adobe. 



Described by Pepper (1920, p. 79). 

 S. wall: plastered jambs; 7 lintel poles 2^" 

 dia. E. wall : lintel poles, 3^" dia. reach 

 across room; jambs originally plastered. W. 

 wall: jambs plastered; 5 lintel poles ca. 2" 

 dia. N. wall: ca. 2' above floor; lintels 2" 

 dia. x 5'; jambs and sill originally plastered; 

 probably blocked but removed before 1849. 

 N. door has been enlarged, sill lowered; E. 

 and W. doors closed and plastered over when 

 Hyde Expedition converted 146 into kitchen. 

 Whitewash and later plaster covered names 

 Simpson and others carved on S. wall Aug. 

 28, 1849. 



SE. comer : blocked. 



N. wall : 5' 3" from NE. corner, 18" above 

 floor, 29" w. X 37" h., blocked. E. wall : 

 blocked (see W. door R. 301B.) S. wall: 

 W. jamb only (see R. 303B). 



''■ In pursuing its investigations at Pueblo Bonito, the National Geographic Society re- 

 examined certain rooms previously excavated by the Hyde Expeditions, 1896-1899. The notes 

 which here follow for Rooms 1-190, recorded during those investigations, are to be regarded 

 merely as supplemental to data published in Pepper, 1920. 



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