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defense, and there are traces of defensive walls along the margin of 

 the summit. The buildings are irregular in plan and comprise three 

 groups, the full length of the groups being about 450 feet and the 

 width 350 feet. ° A sketch plan is given in figure 26. . . . There 

 appears to be no definite historic reference to this site. 



No. 1^.2. — Two unimportant ruined structures occur three and a half 

 miles northeast of Jemez pueblo, on a bluff overlooking Vallecito 

 creek (fig. 27). They are rather unpretentious piles, and by their 

 advanced state of decay would seem to have been long deserted. There 

 are no positive indications of occupancy by post-Spanish inhabitants. 

 . . . Fragments of the archaic varieties of pottery occur, and the 

 usual forms of stone implements. The lower ruin, a, about 150 feet 

 above the creek level, is squarish in outline, and is about 175 by 180 

 feet in extent. It incloses a court in which a shallow circular depres- 



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sion occurs. The ridges of debris are four or five feet in height and 

 two or three rooms in width. The upper structure, &, is about 150 by 

 200 feet in extent, and embodies two courts. The walls are very 

 much reduced. 



iVo. J^3. Patokwa. — Two ruined pueblos, extremely interesting on 

 account of their connection with the events of the Spanish conquest, 

 are found at the confluence of the two main branches of Jemez creek, 

 six miles above the present Jemez pueblo. One is on a low mesa 

 point between the two streams, and the other occupies the end of the 

 great mesa several hundred feet above. The lower site (fig. 28, a) is 

 one that would naturally be selected for residence by primitive peo- 

 ples, and may well have been a principal pueblo of the valley in pre- 

 Spanish times. One portion of the ruin is a large mound of debris 

 from which the larger stones have been removed. This represents 

 the prehistoric town. The other portion is in a much better state of 

 preservation, and consists of lines of fallen house rows surrounding 

 two great courts. That this structure is of late date is clearly indi- 

 cated, not only by its state of preservation but by the presence at one 

 corner of the ruins of a Catholic church. . 



a The measurements given in this [Professor Holmes'] paper are all mere estimates, and the orien- 

 tatioDE are only .approximate. 



