. Bulletin. Ethnology. colton] PREHISTORIC SITES NEAR FLAGSTAFF 39 On a little bluff overlooking the Antelope Wash stands Ruin No. 625. Its shape and relation to the canyon rim on which it stands are shown in Figure 17. Although six rooms show but one story, two of them had at least two stories. The walls now stand 8 feet high. No doors show in the first floor. Three miles east of Wupatki, across a sandstone plain, can be seen the tower of Wukold, a prominent landmark. Wukoki, the Tower House, No. 203, called by Fewkes (1904) Group C, Ruin A, is the most picturesque ruin in the Flagstaff area.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. colton] PREHISTORIC SITES NEAR FLAGSTAFF 39 On a little bluff overlooking the Antelope Wash stands Ruin No. 625. Its shape and relation to the canyon rim on which it stands are shown in Figure 17. Although six rooms show but one story, two of them had at least two stories. The walls now stand 8 feet high. No doors show in the first floor. Three miles east of Wupatki, across a sandstone plain, can be seen the tower of Wukold, a prominent landmark. Wukoki, the Tower House, No. 203, called by Fewkes (1904) Group C, Ruin A, is the most picturesque ruin in the Flagstaff area. Stand- ing three stories high, it dominates the red canyon cut plain. It is not large, having but seven or eight rooms on the ground floor. Since Fewkes has described it and figured it, little more can be added except to plead for its conservation. South of Wukoki on an island in a canyon lies Fewkes's Group C, Ruin B, No. 202, six rooms. The ruin is visible from Heisers Talus. BASAL ROOMS. SCALE o 20 40 P£BT Figure 18.—Crack-in-the-Rock (537), a fort house or small "castle" built on a small mesa on the north end of the Wupatki Basin. The wall with its two series of loopholes, one aiming at the talus slope and the other series aiming at the door in the wall at the east end, is quite unusual in this region Spring, being but a mile down the canyon. Since Fewkes has figured and described it nothing more need be added. The other ruins in the basin are interesting because their walls are standing, but mth the exception of doors (Ruin 636) and the water holes west of No. 632, no outstanding characteristic can be mentioned. Crack-in-the-Rock (fig. 18) is the most northern of the ruins that can be included in the Flagstaff region. The great fault which runs north from Doney Mountain, exhibiting itself in a steep escarpment here, melts into a monocline and the Kaibab limestone which underlies the prairies west of the Little Colorado steeply dips under the red Moencopi. As
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