. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the inclosures. From thebase of the mesa to the riiin an old trail can be traced by rows ofstones on the eastern side, and on the same side there are likewiseremnants of rooms. Graves were found among the rocks at the baseof the mesa. RUIN c Aboiit half a mile north of ruin a of group B there is a fortified mesawith several rooms, some of which had two stories. The surface ofthis mesa is flat, the rim is round, the sides are perpendicular, but BLACK FALLS KUINS 51 of moderate elevation. Most o
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the inclosures. From thebase of the mesa to the riiin an old trail can be traced by rows ofstones on the eastern side, and on the same side there are likewiseremnants of rooms. Graves were found among the rocks at the baseof the mesa. RUIN c Aboiit half a mile north of ruin a of group B there is a fortified mesawith several rooms, some of which had two stories. The surface ofthis mesa is flat, the rim is round, the sides are perpendicular, but BLACK FALLS KUINS 51 of moderate elevation. Most of the walls bitilt on the rim, continuouswith the mesa sides, have fallen, but sections of the houses 10 feethigh still remain, and the roof beams and wattling may be seen injjlace in one or two rooms. There are some fragments of broken metates made of lava, manypotsherds, and a considerable pile of debris at the base of the A can be seen from the highest point, and the distant ruin A ofgroup C is plainly visible. The cemetery is ou the east side, amongthe rocks at the base of the Fig. 9. Ruin A, group o, from the south. CiROUP C RUIN A This ruin, which lies 40 miles by road from Flagstaff and 5 milesdue west of Black falls, is one of the most impressive masses of abo-riginal masonry in this section (plates xvii-XLX, figure 9). It isvisible for many miles, and frojn a distance resembles an old castleas it looms from the north end of an isolated, oblong, red-sandstonemesa rising 15 feet above the plain. The south end of the mesa ishigher than the north extremity, and on its rim appears to have beenbuilt a low Mall inclosing a plaza. Standing walls cover about one-half the surface of the mesa. On its east side, about midway of its 52 TWO SUMMERS WORK JN RnNS lenjfth, tlieiO is n gap with jjerpendknilHr walls cxtciKliug al)uu1 14feet into tlie side and almost bisectiiiLf il. The following measurements of ruin a, group c, were made by MrJack, who has kindly
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