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phases of construction of the buildings. Large pines and oaks 

 grow on the house ruins, showing that the forest has long reclaimed 

 the site. 



The plaza is 80 by 100 feet with an extension on the northwest end 

 of 40 feet into the house mass at the northwest end. On the west 

 side of the plaza is a high bank of house remains 60 feet wide with 

 back along the edge of the hill. On the east side is a row of one 

 story houses flanking the plaza and closing the east border of the 

 hill. The entrance, 24 feet wide, is at the east point. Across the 

 southeast end of the plaza are four unusually large rooms abutting 

 against the west house mass. On the north, rooms begin to jut in on 

 the plaza and coalesce with the houses covering the northwest end of 

 the site. This collection of houses extends 100 feet to the northeast 

 from the front break in the plaza and terminates in a platform of 

 unknown purpose at the top of the hill. 



A corral 21 by 24 feet is built against the west houses, probably 

 by intruders. Among the west houses are several Apache graves. 

 At present 60 rooms may be counted, and these are unusually large. 

 Estimating the high western portion at three stories would augment 

 the number considerably. Under the edge of the hill on the west 

 side are traces of foundations of other houses overgrown with large 

 junipers. 



FIELD NOTES— GRASSHOPPER 



Trenching was begun in the plaza, 80 by 120 feet, in the southern 

 part of the great ruin and a section 30 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 6 

 feet deep was cut. The level plaza was recently made into a garden 

 by the residents of the ranch who led a ditch in from the pond. The 

 cultivated surface is strewn with flint flakes and fragments of pot- 

 tery. The trench showed black packed soil for 2 feet and earth 

 getting redder to the bottom. At 18 inches a band of charcoal of 

 burnt corncobs, etc., was found; at 46 inches another band with 

 ashes and reddened earth showing in a fireplace. No burials are 

 encountered in the debris, but in the bottom tightly packed in the 

 clay was the burial of a young person. No skull found, only arm 

 bones, shoulder blades, and vertebrae. With these was a rude 

 spheroid, corrugated vessel with broken rim and a disk from a 

 rough vessel (fig. 9, section of trench). 



A trench on the north side of the plaza near the buildings yielded 

 three burials and no pottery. One of the burials was on a pavement 

 of flat sandstone. The bones were too fragile for preservation. 

 Further trenching brought to light many burials of adults and some 

 pottery. Often burials of children in a bowl. Frequently no pot- 

 tery with burials. Fireplace boxed in with slabs at the 36-inch level 

 and much ashes. 



