Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . f north of the mouth of Fossil creek. From the south this pinnacle is amost conspicuous landmark, rising as it does some 2,500 feet above theriver within a distance of a quarter of a mile. The upper 50 feet of theeminence consists of bare red rock split into sharp points and little pin-nacles, as shown in figure 287, which represents only the upper portion ofthe butte. The heavy black lines on the sketch map are walls. Someof these were doubtless mere retaining walls, but others are still stand-ing to
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . f north of the mouth of Fossil creek. From the south this pinnacle is amost conspicuous landmark, rising as it does some 2,500 feet above theriver within a distance of a quarter of a mile. The upper 50 feet of theeminence consists of bare red rock split into sharp points and little pin-nacles, as shown in figure 287, which represents only the upper portion ofthe butte. The heavy black lines on the sketch map are walls. Someof these were doubtless mere retaining walls, but others are still stand-ing to a considerable height, and there is yet much debris on the slopeof the rock forming the eastern side of the butte near its top. It isdoubtful whether these rooms were ever used for habitations, andmore probable that they were used as a shrine or for some analogouspurpose. Perhaps a quarter of a mile northeastward, in the saddle connectingthe butte with the contiguous hills in that direction, there are remainsof three small rooms, located east of a low swell or ridge. Figure 288 oo I ?L. H ft* I * % > J. is mindeleff] SINGLE-ROOM REMAINS. 217 shows the general character of the site, which seems to have been afavorite type for temporary structures, single-room outlooks, the fragments of pottery picked up here were pieces of polishedred wai*e of the southern type, and part of the bottom of a large potof so-called corrugated ware. Haifa mile northwestward, in a saddle similar to that last described,and east of the crown of a hill, are the remains of a single room, nearlysquare and perhaps 10 feet long. These single rooms and small clusterremains are unusual in this region, and seem to replace the bowlder-marked ruins so common south of the East Verde (to be described morefully later). Although the walls of this single-room structure werebuilt of river bowlders, they are well marked by debris and are of thesame type as those in the ruins at the mouths of the East Verde
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