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side of one of these parks. The main site covers the lower end of the 

 ridge \ying with its longer axis north and south. On the east the ruin 

 slopes down to the valley b}^ a series of terraces and on the west to a 

 shallow draw. Its outline is oval, measuring 228 feet in length by 150 

 feet in width. The cemeteries lie to the east and to the west of the 

 pueblo and to the northwest is a shrine among the rocks, consisting of 

 a pile of fossils and iron concretions of peculiar shapes. 



Detached rectangular ruins occur at intervals in the juniper and 

 pinyon woods at the northwest along the margin of the gradually 

 ascending ridge extending perhaps 1,500 feet. Aged junipers grow 

 in these ruins and the remaining building stones show extreme 

 weathering. No trees except some young junipers grow on Pottery 

 Hill, giving the impression that this ruin was occupied at a later 

 period than the others in the vicinity. 



Another interesting ruin of the Linden group, lying in the forest 2 

 miles west of Pottery Hill, shows a rectangular plan 45 by 72 feet, 

 containing 12 rooms, and adjoining is a circular-house plan 65 feet in 

 diameter, having a passage through the wall to the central court. 

 (Plates 16 and 17.) There was- little debris, and excavations were 

 without results. Stumps of pine trees that had matured and decayed 

 were found in place in the rooms. The plan of the ruin is instructive 

 when compared with that of Forestdale, which also presents circular 

 and rectangular features. 



No walls are standing in the Pottery Hill ruin, and heaps of sand- 

 stone blocks from the houses, interspersed with fragments of pottery 

 and broken implements, cover the surface. A reconstruction of the 

 pueblo would show a long line of houses perhaps two stories in height, 

 facing both ways, on the slopes of the hill, and below this successive 

 rows of houses, forming terraces. To the east there were three or 

 four terraces and to the west one or two. No detached houses or fire 

 boxes were observed. Such walls as we're uncovered during excava- 

 tion were formed of oblong blocks of rough-faced sandstone laid with 

 little skill. The debris of house refuse is enough to show lengthy 

 occupation of the site. 



The principal cemetery is in the debris on the west side of the pueblo 

 some distance from the walls. Most of the graves had been rifled 

 during the summer of 1900 by dealers in curios from Pinedale, but 

 more systematic excavation brought to light a number of specimens. 

 Owing to the strong nature of the soil few pieces of pottery were 

 taken out unbroken. 



A feature concerning the deposit of the dead in the graves at Lin- 

 den such as the packing of stones and clay around the body, especially 

 near the head, leads one to suppose that the device was to prevent bur- 

 rowing animals from entering the sepultures. This mode of burial 

 accounts for the destruction of the pottery when the earth sank and 



