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was broken through after completion of the room and then closed 

 again before it was actually finished. 



Rude masonry, 2i/^ feet (0.76 m.) high, caps the southeast wall; 

 through this a single beam end protrudes from room 79. 



Room 79^ a dwelling, stands southeast of and next to room 78. 

 Its ceiling .of cross poles, willows, and Johnson grass rested upon 

 two northwest-southeast beams. But the roof had been crushed by 

 large sandstone slabs, fallen from the vaulted cave. (PL 21, A.) 

 The northeast wall is cliff; the southwest, of wattle — willows and 

 Johnson grass bound to posts and surfaced inside and out with 

 adobe. No plaster appears on the other three sides; all four are 

 heavily smoked. The northeast half of the rock floor has been 

 pecked out to a depth of 12 or 14 inches (0.30-0.35 m.) ; a 3-inch fill 

 covers the remainder. 



A door opened through the middle southwest wall with its adobe 

 sill at the outside terrace level, 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 m.) from the 

 retaining wall. Just inside this door is a platform, 4 inches high; 

 at its southeast side a slab on edge, 10 inches (0.25 m.) high by 13 

 inches (0.33 m.) wide, abutted the wattled wall and a now missing 

 masonry firescreen. Against the northeast base of this former screen 

 one notes a slab-lined fireplace, 23 by 11 by 7 inches deep (0.58 by 

 0.27 by 0.17 m.). On a narrow ledge in the east corner, 3 feet 6 

 inches (1.06 m.) above the floor, lies a boat-shaped shelf measuring 

 5 by 12 inches (0.127 by 0.305 m.), made of adobe and chinked with 

 small sandstone chips. The stonework blocking the unfinished 

 opening into room 78 was laid flush with the northwest wall face. 



Room 80 will also be found at the upper east end of the cave, be- 

 tween rooms 79 and 81. Its ceiling height may not be determined, for 

 the upper northwest and southeast walls were broken by great slabs 

 falling from the cave roof. The northeast wall is formed by the 

 cliff; the now missing southwest wall, of wattle, stood 4 feet 6 

 inches (1.4 m.) from the retaining wall. The adobe floor, spread 

 over a shallow fill, lies 3 inches below the outside terrace level. In 

 the west corner of the room is one stone of the former slab-lined 

 fireplace. 



Room 81, adjoining room 80 on the south, also was utilized as a 

 dwelling. Like its neighbor, its northeast wall consists of the sand- 

 stone cliff ; its southwest wall, now missing, was of wattle. The rock 

 floor at the northeast had been slightly reduced by battering ; on the 

 opposite side two grooves evidence the whetting of stone axes. A 

 door undoubtedly opened through the wattled southwest wall. 



The retaining wall which forms a terrace fronting this and near- 

 by dwellings stands 2 feet 6 inches (0.76 m.) from the south corner 

 and 4 feet 3 inches (1.29 m.) from the west corner of room 81. On 



