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was cheerfully undertaken and was carried out during the summer by 
Mr. J. L. Nussbaum of Santa Fe; the body of the church was cleared, 
the walls strengthened and underpinned, and fallen portions of several 
arches, doorways and windows were replaced. 
The archaeological work consisted entirely of excavations in the 
great rubbish heap on the east side of the mesa. Digging was com- 
menced there because it was necessary to clear a place in which earth 
and stone, removed from the houses above, could later be dumped with- 
out danger of covering unexplored ground. This portion of the work 
continued longer than was expected because of the unforeseen depth and 
extent of the rubbish deposit. This miscalculation of the mass of the 
rubbish was due to the mistaken behef that the terrace surrounding the 
building proper formed part of the soKd rock mesa (fig. 1). When, 
however, the trenches reached the defensive wall supposed to mark the 
end of the midden, it was found that the terrace, instead of being rock, 
was composed entirely of rubbish (fig. 2) thus approximately doubling 
the amount to be handled. Further complications were encountered 
in the form of buried kivas and old defensive walls, so that at the end of 
the season the main trench face was still some distance away from the 
FIG. 1. SUPPOSED EXTENT OF RUBBISH BEFORE EXCAVATION 
FIG. 2. ACTUAL EXTENT OF RUBBISH 
