ART. 5 EXCAVATION AND REPAIR OF BETATAKIN JUDD 19 



inches (1.34 m.) from the east corner. Externally, this latter vent 

 is almost round and about 6 inches (0.15 m.) in diameter. 



During the snowstorms we experienced in 1917 my crew and I 

 repeatedly sought shelter in this room and built fires in the south 

 corner. Excepting minor patchwork along the roof edges and a 

 new course of capping stones no repairs were necessar3^ 



Ooiirt 19. During occupancy of the village this open space may 

 have been leveled with debris. But to-day its sandstone surface, 

 slightly higher in the middle, drops abruptly to the sloping cave 

 floor between room 20 and the retaining wall below room 7. On 

 the southeast side of the court a few courses of masonry cap the 

 cliff terrace that serves as northwest wall for rooms 20-21. One sees 

 no evidence of a passageway to court 13, above and at the northwest, 

 but six pecked steps in the cliff at the north corner gave access to 

 the roof of room 18. 



At the cliff base, 3 feet 4 inches (1.01 m.) from the north corner, 

 a pot-shaped hole 11 inches (0.27 m.) deep had been pecked in the 

 solid rock. Three inches below the surface the diameter of this 

 receptacle is 11 inches, but the body diameter, like that at the ori- 

 fice, is 13 inches. Open fires had burned between this hole and 

 the north corner of the court. 



Room 20, a probable storeroom, stands below and south of court 

 19. (PL 10, B.) The face of a cliff terrace, thinly plastered, forms 

 its northwest wall ; the others are of masonry. Smoke stains are not 

 present. The floor is mostly artificial. A cedar log is embedded 

 in the masonry of the southwest wall, about 2 feet below the floor 

 level. 



Four northwest-southeast beams, two of which lie side by side in 

 the middle of the room, carry 17 cross poles with overlying layers 

 of willows and cedar bark. At the northwest all four beams rest 

 upon a log which lies on a shoulder of the cliff, although notches 

 for their individual support had been pecked in the cliff face above 

 the log. Eight pegs protrude from the walls, close up under the 

 beams; a hole for one additional peg is noted. The only entrance 

 to the room is a hatchway, 20 by 24 inches (0.51 by 0.61 m.), in 

 the south corner. 



The terrace on which this storeroom was built had previously 

 settled away from the cliff 14 inches ; the resultant craclj, extending 

 lengthwise through the middle of the floor, had been filled with 

 household debris. A 2-inch fracture in the northeast masonry evi- 

 dences further settling since abandonment of the room. To check 

 this we tied the southeast wall to the cliff with two steel rods, 

 equipped with turnbuckles and expansion bolts. In addition, a hole 

 in the lower southwest side was closed, the walls were recapped, and 

 the roof patched. 



