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A wall supported by a first-story ceiling beam divided the second story of Room 8 into
8B-I and 8B-II; this partition apparently did not extend into the third story.

Similarly, the second story of Room 9 was separated into three chambers by walls resting
each upon paired logs, but in these instances the logs were set above the second-story floor level
and the partitions continued into the upper rooms. Originally, Room 9 was approximately
110 feet long, but after its south wall settled outward, extramural buttresses (later joined to
form Rooms 1-7) were erected, and inner partitions resulted in Rooms 10 and 11. The
second- and third-story partitions of these two rooms rested upon paired beams placed just
above the second-story floor and slightly to one side of their ground-floor counterparts. "Ceiling
height" is floor to secondary poles above main beams. Letters B, C, and D indicate
second, third, and fourth stories.

Rooms 17, 18, 19, 22, 33 to 53 in the western tier, and those elsewhere indicated by
dotted lines (fig. 2) remain unexcavated. Fourth-story masonry is still to be seen in the unnumbered
rooms south of 17-19 and in the four rooms north of 17-18. The quantity of fallen
stonework removed suggests fourth stories also for Rooms 26, 27, and 30; low fourth-story
apartments are seemingly represented in the three south rooms of the easternmost tier
in the north wing.

Room 47B, at the second-story level, overlies the partly razed walls of a kiva.

Like 47B, Room 52B is a second-story chamber above its debris-filled first story.

The Great Tower had been almost wholly razed before abandonment of Pueblo del Arroyo;
but little remained of its inner room, and the highest wall, on the east, stood only 35″. No
data exist on which to estimate the ceiling heights of its incorporated chambers.