AET.5 EXCAVATION AND REPAIR OP BETATAKIN JUDD 9 



unworked cliff, slightly filled in at the front. Three ceiling beams, 

 extending from the front wall to a masonry fill at the rear, support 

 short cross poles and a thick layer of willows, covered directly by 

 adobe. Two poles overlain with split cedar so parallel the front 

 wall as to suggest a former hatchway in the north corner. Three 

 pegs for hanging articles protrude from the inner front wall. 



A 16 by 25 inch (0.40 by 0.64 m.) door opens through the north- 

 east wall. Its sill, widened outside by a sandstone slab on edge, 

 formerly supported a stone door which fitted into grooves on the 

 outer jambs and was held firmly in place by wooden wedges inserted 

 through feather-cord loops. One such loop occupies a hole at each 

 side of the door ; that on the north is held in place by mud. At the 

 outer southeast side a bench 5 by 12 inches (0.13 by 0.31 m.) by 11 

 inches (0.27 m.) high fills a narrow crack. 



Through the lower front wall four roof poles protrude from room 

 2. This latter structure was obviously built first, for there is a dis- 

 tinct line of separation between the large blocks forming its rear 

 wall and the smaller stones in the front wall of room 1. 



We attempted no repairs in rooms 1-8; nor on the masonry of 

 court 10. 



Room 2 was probably a storeroom ; no smoke stains appear on its 

 walls. It floor is mostly of fairly level, native rock, but a shallow 

 fill in front concealed several east-west poles horizontally embedded 

 about 6 inches (0.15 m.) above the base of the east wall. These were 

 undoubtedly deemed necessary as supports or anchors, since the 

 masonry stands flush with the cliff edge. Two pegs protrude from 

 the southeast wall; two beams extend through from room 3. Six 

 beams support the ceiling of willows, cedar bark, and adobe mud; 

 in the northeast corner of this is a hatchway, the only entrance. 



Five feet six inches above the outer southeast corner of the roof 

 are two holes, drilled through a cliff angle; near by is a similar, 

 single eyelet. From these, various light objects were doubtless sus- 

 pended by the ancient inhabitants. 



Room S, a dwelling, exhibits the smoke stains of long occupancy. 

 The lower half of its three masonry walls was repeatedly plastered, 

 but the west, or cliff, side was not similarly surfaced. Two small, 

 parallel timbers next the cliff and a larger, central beam support 10 

 east-west ceiling poles carrying layers of willows, reeds, and mud. 

 A small smoke vent through the middle roof, next the north wall, had 

 been closed with cedar bark and plastered over. In the southeast 

 corner the solid sandstone surface is about a foot lower than the 

 remaining floor, which lies some 8 inches (0.20 m.) higher than that 

 of room 4. 



