The Coconino sun., 1923-06-08

dens is a depression which may once
have been reservoir. This ruin is
the only one visited which was not
built on an elevated mesa at or near
the edge of canyon.
Ruins b, C, and d
There are remains of three houses,
built of lava and sandstone blocks, on
small lava hill a few hundred feet
north of the Citadel. On the same
elevation there is circular wall
which may have served as fortifi-
cation. Most of the walls of the
ruins have fallen, and it is almost i'm
possible to determine the relationship
of the former rooms. There are also
some small ruins on a lava hill near
the elevation on which B, C and ID
are situated.
Ruins f and F
A considerable distance from the
aforementioned cluster, but in the
same direction from the Citadel,
there are situated two conspicuous
ruins visible from considerable dis
tance. One of these, on the top of
lava mesa, is built from the same
material of which the mesa is COM
posed; the other, situated at its base,
is constructed of red sandstone. Near
the latter, on a lava mesa, there are
many photographs, representing
spirals, frogs, snakes and unknown
figures. There is much broken pot
terry near Ruin F.
Ruins G, H, / and ].
These ruins, especially G., H and
J, are constructed of limestone, and
are situated on the brink of a canyon,
at the bottom of which, near ruin G.,
are mounds indicating the site of /.
The walls of G, H and ] are well
preserved, and show some of the best
aboriginal masonry in Arizona.
Ruin G had two rooms with
walls rising 20 feet from the
rim of the canyon. The lower courses
of the wlals are much larger than
the upper, as is true of others in this
neighborhood. The level Of the floors
is indicated by courses of larger
stones.
Ruin ] fFigure q, is the best pre-
served of all the ruins in group A,
and presents exceptional features. 1t
is situated on the left wall of can
yon which is about 49 feet deep and
equally wide. It deepens and widens
east of the ruin, and then narrows,
forming natural corral inclosed by
cliffs. Eight good rooms we're noted
in that part of the ruin situated on
the top of the canyon wall, and in
the canyon below it there are several
semi-circular basal rooms, some of
which were sheltered by an over-hang-
ing cliff. Similarly sheltered rooms
are found in many of the ruins in
this neighborhood, but nowhere else
are they so well preserved. There
are no beams in place, but their for
mer positions are shown in many
walls by openings, indicating that
when inhabited the pueblo had two,
possible three stories. An inclosure
which may have been ninth room is
so filled with fallen walls that the
details of it's construction or size
could not be determined.
AS none of the rooms have external
lateral openings on a level with the
foundations, it is naturally supposed
that all were entered by means of
ladders or hatchways. There are a
modern doorway ana IlF6pidcO Ill one
room, evidently of later construction
than the walls.
Perhaps the most problematic struc-
lures in this ruin are the small cysts
in the canyon walls east of the en-
trance. A thin layer of softer rock
has so weathered as to leave a hori-
zontal crevice which at intervals is
divided by stones set on edge into
receptacles a foot or so deep. They
were formerly closed by flat slabs
of stone, only two of which now re-
main in place. These cysts were nice
ly plastered, and the slabs which clos
ed them were luted in place with
adobe. Nothing was found in them to
indicate their use, whether as burial
places for the dead or as bins for the
storage of corn. Their number was
considerable, but they were so small
that their capacity could scarcely
have been more than a few bushels.
This is the only ruin in which such
Enclosures were found, and no theory
is advanced as to their former use.
tContinued next week
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