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subfloor crack continuing through rooms 20-23; of the southeast 

 wall, only a fragment in the south corner has survived. The floor is 

 entirely artificial. Fires had burned against the southwest wall^ 

 near the south corner. Upon the floor at the base of the northwest 

 wall lay 3 feet of old debris; above this, the looser earth and sand 

 thrown out by earlier excavators. 



Although the roof is entirely missing, two beam rests show in the 

 stonework above the cliff and holes for five cross poles appear in the 

 masonry of the southwest wall, 5 feet 6 inches (1.7 m.) above the 

 floor. 



The Douglass ground plan inadvertently shows the northeast wall 

 of room 23 a continuation of that in room 39. Its correct position,, 

 evidenced by the masonry fragment in the subfloor crack, is indicated 

 on Plate 3. 



Court 2Jt. lies between rooms 16 and 25. A cliff ledge on the north- 

 west side forms a bench 18 inches (0.45 m.) wide at the west by 3 

 feet (0.91 m.) wide at the east; its middle surface rises nearly a foot 

 above the remainder. At the east end, which stands about 3 feet 

 high, a depression had been filled with spalls and debris; over this, 

 a series of nine stone steps led from the court floor to the roof of 

 room 26. At the opposite end of the bench four pecked steps gave 

 access to the roof of room 16. Below this shelf is a second and nar- 

 rower ledge from which the native rock floor slopes gently downward 

 toward the south side of the court. Here a southeast wall supports a- 

 debris fill, approximating the level of the sandstone surface at the 

 northwest. In the west corner two shallow mortar-like basins, 11 

 inches (0.27 m.) in diameter by 2 inches (0.05 m.) deep and 8 inches 

 (0.20 m.) in diameter by 1 inch deep, had been pecked in the solid 

 rock. 



The southeast side and the adjacent wattled wall required minor 

 repairs (pis. 11, A; 12, B) in 1917; three of the north steps were re- 

 laid (pi. 27, B) and a notched cedar was substituted for those pecked 

 at the west. 



Room 25, east of court 24, stands against the cliff immediately 

 below room 26. Half of its wattled southwest wall was still stand- 

 ing; we reconstructed, but did not surface, the remaining portion. 

 (PI. 11, B.) The lower 3 feet (0.91 m.) of the three masonry walls- 

 had been surfaced; 10 superposed layers of plaster were counted in 

 one place. Incised designs appear on all except the wattled wall. 

 In the north corner, 2 feet 8 inches (0.81 m.) above the floor, is a 

 triangular shelf measuring 7 inches (0.17 m.) on the northeast by 

 6 inches (0.15 m.) on the northwest. The charred ends of two 

 beams, 8 inches in diameter, protrude on the northwest, 4 feet 5- 

 inches (1.34 m.) above the floor; a lesser beam supported the top of 



