ART. 5 EXCAVATION" AND REPAIR OF BETATAKIN JUDD 41 



The north half of the floor had been worked out of native rock, 

 while the remainder was filled in and adobe surfaced. Pecked in 

 the standstone near the east wall is a shallow hole, 2 inches in 

 diameter; just below it is a step that may have been cut before the 

 house was built. A stone in the outer east wall bears an incised, 

 swastika-like design. (Fig. 4.) 



In 1917 we partially restored the north and east walls. (PI. 

 22, B.) 



Room 76 was built on the sharply inclined cave floor between 

 rooms 75 and 77. A pecked groove marks the former position of its 

 south wall ; its east and west sides, now represented by a few courses 

 of masonry, had been erected upon loose debris. We saved the west 

 fragment by building in new foundations as the rubbish was re- 

 moved; the north end of this same wall and the east side were 

 partially reconstructed. 



Room 77 is a small chamber between room 76 and the retaining 

 wall in the upper northeast section of the cave. Its missing south 



Figure 4. — Design incised on outer east wall of room 75 



wall formerly stood upon a narrow, pecked groove; a worked-out 

 area marked its floor level. The east and west walls, having dis- 

 integrated beyond hope of repair, were partially restored in 1917, 

 as was also the adjacent retaining wall. (PL 20, B.) 



Room 78, also in the upper east end of the cave, was designed 

 for storage purposes. (PL 19, A, B.) Sheer cliff forms its north- 

 east wall; masonry, the others. Externally the stonework of this 

 room is among the best in the ruin ; inside it is crude and irregular. 

 The level floor is wholly of native rock. Four beams supported 

 the roof; two of these, of aspen and still present, lie side by side 

 next the cliff. 



Thirteen inches above the floor in the middle northwest wall is 

 a 15 by 24-inch (0.38 by 0.61 m.) door, whose heavy stone lintel is 

 supported by five strips of split cedar. The outer jams and lintel 

 of this entrance are deeply grooved for the door slab so typical 

 of Betatakin storerooms. In the southeast wall, 22 inches (0.56 m.) 

 above the floor, one notes a former opening that measured about 

 16 by 20 inches (0.40 by 0.51 m.). Its irregular sides and the ab- 

 sence both of lintel and sill slabs suggest that this prospective door 



