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(fig. 34, c) mentioned above is of much-eroded white marble and has 

 three short, conical legs, being practically identical with some of the 

 marble bowls from site i, Indian Hill. Bird also found on the surface 

 inside the enclosure a fragment of a large metate with a squared leg. 

 In addition to the above, his collection in the American Museum of 

 Natural History includes a battered celt of hard green stone with 

 both ends broken off, and (from a test pit west of mound i) six 

 thick red sherds (2 cm in thickness), two similar sherds with low 

 flaring rims, one short cylindrical leg, and a vertical loop handle 

 composed of two joined pottery coils. The heavy sherds and rims 

 strongly suggest the burial urns from Utila, and it is very probable 

 that an adequate series of trenches at this site would reveal urn 

 l)urials, though none has as yet been reix)rted from here. 



The following description of the main site is based primarily on a 

 plane-table survey made by Haskell and myself, which required a 

 day and a half. The surface of the enclosure, although seemingly 

 flat, is actually uneven and is covered with dense coconut palms and 

 some low brush, making sighting difficult. I have also incorporated 

 some of Bird's data as well, but a series of measurements that he 

 made of a considerable number of the erect and fallen stones seems 

 too detailed for incorporation at this time. The Mitchell-Hedges 

 diagram, previously referred to, is too far off in directions, dimen- 

 sions, and locations to make any comparison profitable. At present 

 the site is a " cocale ", where copra is gathered ; one of the mounds 

 (fig. 35) is fenced in as a pigpen, and a wire fence stretches across 

 the southern opening, cutting off the " cocale " from the brush land 

 to the south. The overseer's house is located to the west of the 

 enclosure. 



As one approaches the Plan Grande enclosure from the north, a 

 low wall of boulders is encountered (fig. 35). This is here about 

 6 feet high on the outside and only 3 feet high on the inside. The 

 wall is from 3 to 4 feet wide and probably averages about 4 feet 

 in height, the stones being piled in no particular order. It encloses 

 a space about 350 yards long from east to west and 280 yards 

 from north to south. There are a few hollows or rude shelves in 

 this wall, which may be remnants of the niches containing " stone 

 chairs " mentioned by Young in 1842. The southern half of the 

 enclosure has no wall but is defined by the dry channel of a stream, 

 forming a steep-walled canyon of some depth. On the west mound 

 5, a small mound 8 feet high, and a short spur terminate the wall. 

 Slightly north of mound 5 is mound 6, a larger but lower mound 

 (6 feet high), composed entirely of boulders and slabs, some of which 



