ART. 5 



EXCAVATIOlSr AND EEPAIR OP BETATAKIN JUDD 



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out with rubbish. But in room 22 the southwest wall masonry con- 

 tinued down into this crack, thus leaving, under the paved bench, a 

 recess 10 inches (0.25 m.) wide by 16 inches (0.40 m.) deep. 



Incised designs appear on the plastered bench face and on all four 

 -walls. (Fig. 2.) An irregular rectangle about 5^/2 inches (0.13 m.) 

 high by 7 inches (0.17 m.) wide, with crossed lines forming 100 small 

 squares, is seen on the southeast wall; a similar figure shows faintly 

 on the northeast side near the east corner, and just to the left of it 

 is a familiar pottery design. The best preserved of all these incised 



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Figure 2.^Designs carved on the walls of room 22. 



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figures appear on the middle northwest wall, in the plaster covering 

 the cliff face ; in addition, there are faint waved lines and miscella- 

 neous scratchings. A series of six " turkey tracks," with other fig- 

 ures, will be noted in the plaster above the southwest bench. 



To check settling of the southeast wall we anchored it to the cliff 

 with two steel rods fitted with turnbuckles. Minor wall repairs were 

 made. 



RooTTi 23 is a relatively small structure between rooms 22 and 42, 

 south of and below passage 40. Its northwest wall is formed mostly 

 by the perpendicular face of a ledge; the other three are masonry. 

 Of the northeast wall only three stones remain and these lie in the 



