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wattle, mud covered. Only the lower half of the three masonry walls 

 was plastered. The charred ends of three northwest-southeast beams 

 are visible, and two of these lie side by side, near the west corner. 

 At the southeast these three beams rested upon individual posts set 

 just within the wattled wall. Seatings for five cross poles were 

 pecked in the upper northeast masonry, but the former ceiling un- 

 doubtedly included 10 or 12 such timbers. The stonework upon the 

 northwest, or cliff, wall was set back 5 inches (0.12 m.), thus forming 

 a shelf the entire width of the room and about 4 inches (0.10 m.) 

 below the beams. This shelf we repaired; at the same time the 

 northwest and northeast walls were recapped. 



In the middle southeast wall is a broken door. Within it, 22 

 inches (0.56 m.) from the wall, stands a slab fire screen measuring 



25 inches (0.64 m.) wide by 14 inches (0.35 m.) high; its west end 

 is joined to the wattled wall by slabs embedded on edge and extend- 

 ing 4 inches above the floor. At the northwest base of the screen is a 

 fireplace, 7 inches (0.17 m.) deep, and averaging 16 by 21 inches 

 (0.40 by 0.53 m.). 



Court 28 lies between rooms 27 and 29, southeast of room 100. 

 Like other courts, it served as an open living room in which diverse 

 domestic activities were pursued. Its northeast wall, 5 feet 3 inches 

 (1.6 m.) long, is of wattle (pi. 12, A) ; on the southeast a low retain- 

 ing wall, extends westwardly to form a narrow passage fronting 

 room 27. In the middle northwest side a door opens into room 100 ; 

 both jambs are grooved and loops are present for wooden fasteners. 

 Minor repairs were made on the wattled wall and on that adjoining 

 at the southeast. 



Room 29-30. A 2-story dwelling northeast of court 28 and room 

 100; southeast of and below room 31. Little remains of the upper 

 chamber; the following notes pertain to the lower: For the most 

 part, the floor is artificial, but along its northwest side the native 

 rock had been worked down to approximate the general level. In the 

 west corner a hole, 10 inches (0.25 m.) in diameter by 12 inches 

 (0.30 m.) deep and now fire stained inside, had been pecked from 

 the solid sandstone. Three shallow grooves where axes were sharp- 

 ened appear in the northwest half of the room; here also are three 

 pecked holes, averaging 2 inches in diameter by 2 inches deep, 

 one of which contains a loom anchor stick. The wattled portion of 

 the southwest wall was entirely plastered; of the others, only the 

 lower half was so treated. No door being present, this lower room 

 necessarily was entered through a hatchway. 



The southeast wall was built upon a horizontal log. At the 

 northwest, lying on a low ledge of rock and supporting the upper 

 wall masonry, is a similar log; above it, 4 feet (1.2 m.) from the 



