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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



EXCAVATION NOTES. PUEBLO BOmTO— continued 



Room 



255 Ceiling ; 



256 



Hatchway : 

 Wall niches ; 



Wall pegs : 

 Fill: 



Subfloor : 

 Doorways : 



Ventilators ; 

 Shelf : 

 Partition : 



Subfloor : 



Single E.-W, beam in middle; ceiling poles 

 and split cedar ; 3 hewn planks in ceiling, 

 SE. corner. 



NE. corner, 15" x 20" N.-S. ; hewn planks 

 rim S. and W. sides, adobe on E., 4" masonry 

 on S. plank. 



N. wall: 6" from NE. corner, 3' 10" above 

 floor, 14" X 6" h. x 5" d., plastered, hewn 

 plank lintel. S. wall: 27" from SE. corner, 

 28" above floor, 6" x 7" h. outside, 13" w. x 

 11" h. X IH" d. inside; floor 4" below sill, a 

 mano 4" w. ; slab lintel on split cedar. 

 S. wall, 4' 3" above floor: 1) 24" from SE. 

 corner broken off flush; 2) lOJ" from SW. 

 corner protrudes 15". 



Debris of occupancy dumped through hatch- 

 way; includes part of macaw skeleton and 

 sherds matching fragments from R. 246. 

 Partly razed wall parallels S. side at 3' 2", 

 plaster rounds to that on E. wall and floor 

 at 4i'. 



NW. wall : 5' 7" from W. corner, 14" above 

 floor, 27" w. X 3' 5" h., later reduced to leave 

 under-lintel vent. 20" h. NE. wall : 7' from 

 E. corner, 13" above floor, 27" w. x 3' 10" h., 

 sill later raised to 25". SE. wall: 6' 9" from 

 E. corner, 3' 10" above floor, reduced to 

 ventilator 28" w. x 20" h. SW. wall : (en- 

 trance to R. 250) 13" from W. corner, 25" 

 above floor, 24" w. x 29" h. ; masonry step 

 below, 15" w. X 18" 1. x 8" h., 18" from NW. 

 wall. 



NE. wall: 1) flush with SE., 5' 3" above 

 floor, 13" w. X 14" h. ; 2) 31" from N. corner, 

 5' 3" above floor, 14" sq. ; both blocked. 

 N. corner : 5' 8" above floor, masonry 21" w. 

 X 4' 2" h. enclosing diagonal door between 

 Rs. 257 and 258. 



Wattle wall, horizontal willows supported by 

 9 posts and plastered on N. side only, abuts 

 NE. wall ir from N. corner and SW. wall 

 4' 5" from W. corner, preserving passageway 

 between Rs. 250 and 257. 

 Foundation 18" w. bearing 4th type masonry 

 goes under E. wall 11' 8" from NE. corner, 

 razed 10' to W. [One of posts for wattled 

 wall pierced this foundation.] Test in SW. 

 corner revealed earlier floors at 24" and 

 3' 10" ; W. wall plaster rounds to latter but 

 its 4th type masonry continues 16". On floor 

 at 24", wall 17" w. abuts W. side 6' 2" from 



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