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not belong to this complex but indicate a secondary occupation ; their 

 masonry is crude ; their number shows that the population was insig- 

 nificant. The few people who occupied them came later than those 

 who erected and used the tower. 



There remain several large mounds in the IMummy Lake area 

 awaiting excavation : some of these cover pueblos or houses of many 

 clans, others small one-clan houses. The superficial appearance of 

 these mounds seems to indicate types somewhat different from any 

 yet described. One of the most unusual is a mound lying a few 



Fig. 106. — Megalithic House. Mainly distinguished by walls made of 

 huge stones on edge. (Photograph by Geo. L. Beam. Courtesy Denver 

 and Rio Grande Western Railroad.) 



hundred feet north of ]*ilummy Lake, near the government road. 

 When discovered nothing appeared above ground except a row of 

 large unworked stones set on edge, forming one wall of a small room. 

 On excavation walls of other rooms appeared, one of which was paved 

 with flat stones. The ruin had a single subterranean kiva, of regula- 

 tion shape and size, the walls characterized by large stones. This 

 ruin, called Megalithic House (fig. io6), belongs to a type which there 

 is every reason to suspect is represented elsewhere on the Mesa. 

 Cyclopean walls similar to those of Megalithic House have been pre- 

 viously reported from the blufif overlooking the junction of the 

 "S^ellow Jacket and McElmo Canyons, and at various jDlaces in the 



