ART. 5 EXCAVATIOlSr AND REPAIR OF BETATAKII^ JUDD 15 



On the cliff above room 11 two holes, 1% inches apart, had been 

 drilled through a thin layer of sandstone. 



Room 12 is a storeroom, built against the outer northeast wall of 

 room 11. Its floor is the solid sandstone of the uppermost terrace; 

 its masonry bears no trace of smoke. A single northeast-southwest 

 beam crosses the room slightly nearer the cliff than the southeast 

 wall; four cross poles support a ceiling of willows, cedar bark, and 

 adobe mud. Several potsherds were used as chinking in the north- 

 east wall. One peg protrudes from the upper southeast side, 3 

 inches from the east corner. 



An 18 by 24 inch (0.46 by 0.61 m.) door opens through the middle 

 northeast wall. Its lintel consfsts of three pieces of split cedar, sup- 

 porting a large stone; its sill is a thin sandstone slab. Both outer 

 jambs are slightly grooved for the usual door slab; loops for fas- 

 teners appear on each side. A mano was incorporated in the 

 masonry under the outer north jamb; in the wall above, two empty 

 holes for wall pegs may be seen. 



Court 13 separates room 11 from room 14 ; on the southeast stands 

 an inclosing wall, now 2 feet high. Room 12 is a later addition, 

 built in the west corner of the court against room 11; sheer cliff 

 forms the northwest side. The rock surface in the north corner 

 had been pecked down to approximate the level of an adobe pave- 

 ment which covers a deep debris fill against the southeast retaining 

 wall. Open fires and the varied domestic activities pursued in the 

 court have darkened its entire floor and left their mark on some of 

 its surrounding masonry. 



A shallow fireplace, rimmed with adobe (now much broken) , lies 

 at the base of the cliff 26 inches (0.66 m.) from room 12. Three 

 slab fragments stand on edge back of this fireplace; within it we 

 found a dressed sandstone tablet measuring 10^ by 9 by % inches 

 (0.26 by 0.22 by 0.019 m.). Near by a mortar, 11 inches (0.27 m.) 

 in diameter by 14 inches (0.35 m.) deep, had been pecked into the 

 rock floor 9 inches from the cliff and 2 feet 7 inches from the north 

 corner. Its concave bottom and vertical sides are stained by fire and 

 ash. Three grooves on stones of the northeast wall near the north 

 corner show where implements were sharpened. Here also a protrud- 

 ing beam end and three shallow steps pecked in the cliff gave access 

 to the roof of room 14; a fourth pecked step, or handhold, appears 

 a bit higher on the cliff. The roof of room 11 was doubtless formerly 

 reached by a ladder in the alcove south of room 12. 



To aid passage to and from court 13 we substituted a notched 

 cedar (pi. 27, A) for the old pecked steps in the north corner and 

 placed a pole ladder in the south corner. Minor wall repairs were 

 made, especially on the southeast. 



