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INVERTED CONE RUIN 



The best example of the mushroom type of ruin, shown in the 

 accompanying figure (fig. 15) is about 6 miles up the canyon from 

 Taylor s ranch on the right hand side of Hill Canyon. It is clearly 

 visible from the road which follows the stream and has a wide out- 



FIG. 15. Inverted cone ruin. 



look up and down the valley. Although the top of the rock on which 

 this ruin stands would at first sight appear to be inaccessible, Mr. 

 Owen, by means of a log, surmounted it and reported that its surface 

 is flat and that the walls thereon are about 20 feet long and five feet 

 wide, enclosing a roughly oval chamber, as their outline follows the 

 rim of the top of the rock. These walls, when seen from the road with 

 a good glass, appear as low ridges constructed of indifferent masonry. 



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