ART. 5 EXCAVATION AND REPAIR OF BETATAKIN" JUDD 31 



wide by 2 feet 8 inches (0.81 m.) long. A later door, 15 by 25 inches 

 (0.38 by 0.64 m.), opened through the southeast wall onto the roof 

 of room 51; two stones composed its sill. Although the outer jambs 

 of this second door are slightly grooved, fasteners were not pro- 

 vided. 



Restoring the southeast door in 1917, we seated a single lintel slab, 

 without supporting sticks. To suggest the original beam level, a 

 pole was placed parallel with the cliff. 



Court li5 lies in the left front of "the village with room 35 ad- 

 joining on the southwest; rooms 46 and 50, on the northeast. The 

 northwest side is sandstone cliff, sloping up from the floor to rooms 

 29, 43, and 48. The southwest wall, of wattle, is divided by a door 

 whose slab sill lies 4 inches above the court floor. At each side of 

 this door stands a post, joined to the wall by 6 inches of masonry. 

 In the upper middle of the southeast inclosing wall was an opening 

 (reproduced in 1917) slightly larger than the usual " windows " or 

 ventilators. 



Most of the court floor is artificial; fires had burned in various 

 places. Several pecked steps lead up the sloping northwest side to 

 a small flattish area in the corner formed by the outer walls of 

 rooms 29 and 48. Two loom anchor holes, pecked in the north corner 

 of the main court floor, each measure 3 inches (0.076 m.) in diameter 

 by 21/^ inches (0.06 m.) deep; a third hole, unfinished, lies slightly 

 to the west. A narrow bench, 8 inches (0.20 m.) wide by 14 inches 

 (0.35 m.) high, extends nearly the entire length of the northeast 

 wall and serves as a sill for the door to room 46. This door meas- 

 ures 18 inches (0.45 m.) wide by 25 inches (0.64 m.) high; staples 

 appear at each side. 



Where it abuts the nearly vertical cliff, the northeast wall was 

 built into a dug groove about 3 inches deep. (PI. 14, B.) We re- 

 paired the broken masonry here, repaired the wattled southwest 

 wall, and did miscellaneous patching elsewhere. 



RooTTi Ji.6 stands east of court 45 and southeast of room 60. Its 

 northwest and southeast walls follow the irregular cliff ledges on 

 which they were built. For example, the southeast wall extends 

 4 feet 9 inches (1.4 m.) from the south corner to a northwest-south- 

 east jog, 2 feet 3 inches (0.68 m.) long; thence, 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m.) 

 to the east corner. The northwest wall, standing on parts of two 

 narrow sloping ledges, has a similar offset 3 feet 10 inches (1.16 m.) 

 from the west corner and 5 feet (1.5 m.) from the north corner. 

 While the floor consists mostly of native rock, depressions along the 

 southeast side were filled and surfaced with adobe. 



A door opens through the southwest wall into court 45 ; 24 inches 

 (0.61 m.) below its sill a step, 6 inches (0.15 m.) wide by 17 inches 

 (0.43 m.) long, was pecked into a protruding mass of native rock. 



