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and made into a vegetable cellar. Another room in the south end was 

 excavated and converted into a cistern from which the seepage has 

 completely saturated the rooms to the north for 50 or more feet. 

 (See fig. 2.) In addition to all this, the owner of Showlow ruin has 

 been more or less actively engaged the last 25 years in recovering 

 artifacts through diggings of his own. A remarkable collection of 

 pottery and other objects was thus accumulated which has recently 

 been acquired by Gila Pueblo.' Globe, Arizona. Needless to say, the 

 ruin has suffered tremendously under the march of our 20th century 

 civilization, but nevertheless, from the few intact rooms opened by us 

 were obtained the charred timbers that definitely joined the two sec- 

 tions of the tree-ring calendar and extended it back to A. D. 700. 



The ruin is roughly rectangular in shape, the longest axis running 

 north and south. Our excavations did not verify Bandelier's descrip- 

 tion of a two-unit pueblo, but instead, as Hough indicated, the struc- 

 ture is continuous. Several tiers of rooms occupy the western side, 

 from which three short salients extend eastward to form an E. The 

 intervening spaces thus created were used as plazas, the southernmost 

 one having a large depression. Apparently Bandelier had this in mind 

 when he said there was " one circular estufa." As to the probability of 

 a circular ceremonial chamber in Showlow ruin comments are made 

 later. 



Hough mentions the fact that the debris covering the ruin was so 

 thin that a plan was not difficult to make out. A further advantage 

 to him was the fact that only a single modern house existed on the site 

 and very little excavation and leveling had been done. While the 

 general plan of a ruin may be observed from surface indications of 

 walls and contour levels, some doubt must always remain as to precise 

 room arrangement and dimensions until actual excavation has been 

 accomplished. To identify rooms uncovered by us from previously 

 drawn plans,' which were based on superficial examination only, was an 

 impossibility. Hence, it seemed advisable to replot the ruin in rough 

 outline and place thereon all tests and rooms uncovered by us and to 

 show their relation to the present superimposed dwellings. (See fig. 2.) 



In pursuing the search for charcoal it seemed most advantageous to 

 put down test-pits which could be abandoned if old diggings or rooms 

 unproductive of charcoal were encountered. Frequently the shovel 



' Mr. Gladwin, Director, has kindly permitted us to examine the collection and 

 to utilize any data obtained therefrom in the preparation of this report. 

 "Bandelier, A. F., 1892, pi. i, fig. 38; Hough, Walter, 1903, pi. 21. 



