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with hammerstones. This excavation doubtless marks the former 

 floor level, the front portion having been filled in with rubbish and 

 surfaced with adobe as in so many other rooms, similarly situated. 

 Two charred beam ends protrude from the upper southwest wall, 

 next the cliff. A long narrow groove, pecked in the sandstone, 

 formerly supported the now missing southeast wall. This latter, 

 as in the case of room 66, we assume to have been of wattle above a 

 masonry base that rose only to the floor level. It should be admitted, 

 however, that we have no real justification for the assumption. 



We deepened the southeast wall groove and, upon it, reconstruced 

 the masonry foundation to approximately its original height; the 

 adjacent sides were also represented by limited stonework built upon 

 deep steps we cut to replace the shallow, pecked seatings provided by 

 the aboriginal masons. (PI. 17, B.) 



Room 68 is merely a platform fronting room 59. When ex- 

 amined in 1917 its retaining (southeast) wall extended only one 

 course above the landing ; there was no certain evidence of a former 

 southwest wall, although several large stones had been piled in 

 there, below the floor level. 



Directly in front of the door to room 59 is a groove where a 

 stone ax was sharpened. On the slanting cliff west of the platform 

 is a single pecked step which, with similar steps on the large rocks 

 that had slumped into room 44, suggests that room 59 was entered 

 from above the roof levels of rooms 44 and 56. 



We added a second course of stones on the southeast side and, 

 perhaps erroneously, replaced the loose subfloor blocks at the south- 

 west with masonry extending two layers above the platform level. 



Room 59, a probable storeroom, situated high in the middle por- 

 tion of the cave, above and northwest of room 60-61. The founda- 

 tion of its southeast wall was supported by a log resting upon the 

 precipitous cave floor with its ends embedded in the northeast and 

 southwest walls of room 60-61. A post about 6 feet (1.82 m.) high 

 and reaching from floor to arching cliff above was incorporated in 

 the masonry at the north corner. Rough stonework fills the space 

 between this post and the adjacent lower cliff, thus creating an angle 

 in the northeast side as shown in Plate 3. Smoke stains are dis- 

 cernible on the lower walls. Although the floor is mostly of solid 

 sandstone, a shallow fill was made in front. Pecked in the rock 

 floor at the west end is a seemingly unnecessary step. 



The roof was supported by two parallel beams next the cliff and 

 a third, now missing, toward the front. Through the middle south- 

 west wall, with two large cedar sticks as lintel, is a 17 by 30-inch 

 (0.43 by 0.76 m.) door. Its outer jambs are not grooved; hence 

 the space within may not have been utilized solely for storage 

 purposes. 



