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that of room 125; in its middle is a slab-lined fireplace. Three of 

 the slabs bordering this pit extend 5 inches (0.13 m.) above the 

 floor level. 



Room 127. The east wall of this dwelling had been demolished by- 

 falling blocks of sandstone and wholly disintegrated by seepage. 

 But smoke stains on the cliff indicate a room larger than those im- 

 mediately to the west. Portions of the west and wattled south walls 

 were present; against them lay broken flooring, 6 inches (0.15 m.) 

 above the walk outside. 



Between rooms 127 and 78 is space for two dwellings, but the level 

 terrace surface here, although smoothed with adobe, discloses no 

 evidence either of masonry or wattled walls. The outer jambs and 

 lintel of the door into room 78 are deeply grooved for the door slab 

 characteristic of storerooms. At one side of this opening two pecked 

 steps gave access to the roof. 



Room 128 stood on a low detached ledge west of room 74, A cut- 

 out area marks its approximate floor level and indicates the probable 

 wall positions. 



From above the northwest corner of this room pecked steps extend 

 northward for several feet up the sloping cave floor, as seatings for 

 a former wall. 



Room 129 was built on the cliff edge in the lower east end of the 

 cave, south of room 75 and west of room 82. The cliff face had been 

 worked down in two terraces; the lower of these forms part of the 

 floor, while the upper extends nearly the entire width of the room 

 as a bench 9 inches (0.22 m.) high by 8 inches (0.20 m.) wide. The 

 curved southeast wall, now reduced to 2 feet (0.60 m.) in height, 

 follows the contour of the cliff. No beam holes are evident in the 

 smoke-stained walls. 



We repaired the north end of the curved wall, but did not attempt 

 desirable restorations. 



Room 130 is one of possibly six large rooms formerly situated on 

 the abrupt slope southeast of room 73 and north of rooms 74 and 

 128. Pecked grooves and steps as probable wall seatings are noted 

 at intervals, but it seems likely that whatever masonry once stood 

 here was erected upon debris thrown down from dwellings above, as 

 was the case east of room 76. 



Rooms 131-135. Excavated areas approximating floor levels, with 

 pecked grooves and steps as rests for masonry walls, indicate the 

 former presence of six or more rooms in that section east of room 

 76 and north of room 82. At least some of these structures had been 

 erected upon loose debris. No walls were standing in 1917. At be- 

 ginning of our operations this entire slope was buried under fallen 

 masonry; great blocks of standstone from the cave roof seemed 

 largely responsible for the destruction. 



