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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I47 



EXCAVATION NOTES, PUEBLO BONITO— continued 



Room 

 322 



323 



Subfloor : 



Ceiling : 



Doorways ; 



Fireplace : 



Subfloor ; 



324 



Doorways : 



Fireplace : 



Partly razed 2nd type kiva, plastered inside, 

 abuts W. wall and underlies Kiva Z stone- 

 work. Test pit abandoned at depth of 3i'. 

 O.B. dwelling with 2 storerooms, 317-318. 

 All walls 1st type stonework plastered and 

 smoke-stained. Floor, sandy and ill-defined. 

 NW.-SE. beams, NE.-SW. ceiling poles, 

 layers of chico brush, cedarbark, and adobe. 

 7 pine posts as beam props on slabs at or 

 just below floor; packed at butt end with 

 shale chips and slab fragments in adobe cone, 

 6-8" h. 



Middle NE. wall : ca. 4' 6" above floor. SE. 

 wall : 1)7' 8" from E. corner, 6' 2" above 

 floor, 23" w. X 32" h., pine lintel poles, hewn 

 pine board sill, blocked; below S. jamb, 

 6" from wall 7" dia. hole for post step; 

 2) 13' 10" from S. corner, 38" above floor, 

 25" w. X 31" h., blocked by Kiva Z ; post step 

 beneath; 3) T-shaped door, lower part 23" 

 from E. corner, blocked. (This door with 4th 

 type repairs, collapsed during excavation of 

 323. Its plank sill, U.S. N.M. No. 335275, was 

 saved.) SW. wall : 6' 9" from S. corner, 

 3' 6" above floor, 24" w. x 27" h. NW. wall : 

 1 ) 8' from W. corner, 3' 8" above floor, 

 25" w. X 31" h.; 2) 8' 3" from N. comer, 

 35" above floor, 21" w. x 33" h., blocked. 

 8' 8" from S. corner, 6' 4" from SE. wall, 

 13" w. x 15" x 12" d., slab-lined, E. slab a 

 discarded metate. 



Test at midfloor shows clean sand at 4i'. 

 L.B. dwelling at 2nd story level; its floor 

 10' above that of O.B. room 325 and 3^' 

 above floor of 4th type Kiva Z, adjoining on 

 N. W. wall of 1st type stonework; others, 

 3rd type built with salvaged 2nd type ma- 

 terials. S. side rests on beam atop R. 327 

 N. wall. All walls plastered; butt of R. 325 

 ceiling beam protrudes thru W. wall 2' 7" 

 from NW. corner. 



E. wall, T-shaped; lower part 28" from NE. 

 corner original sill 10" below floor, 22" w. x 

 3' 4" h., lower 11" blocked to leave low ven- 

 tilator; upper part 16" from NE. corner, 36" 

 w., blocked and plastered over. S. wall : 

 1) 29" from SW. corner, 10" above floor, 

 19" w., blocked ; 2) 29" from SE. corner, 

 10" above floor, 17" w. 

 Against S. wall, 4' 10" from SE. corner, 23" 

 E.-W. X 20" X 12" d., masonry-lined; 2 stone 

 firedogs. 



(Contintied) 



