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pottery is of three varieties — gray, coiled brown with polished black 

 interior, and coiled. Many of the specimens of the gray ware have 

 the form of birds and animals. 



No. SO. Walled care. — On the San Francisco 1^ miles above the 

 mouth of the Blue is a well-preserved cave house or walled cave. It 

 is formed in a stratum of yellow tufa, at an elevation of about 500 

 feet above the river, and opens on a sloping ledge which tops a sheer 

 cliif. The cave is about 15 feet deep and is closed by a neatly laid 

 wall. The narrow door, doorstep, and the wooden lintel are still intact. 

 Some debris remains on the floor of the cave, but all artifacts have 

 been taken away by relic hunters. Adjoining the cave on the east is 



Fig. 11. Walled cave near mouth of Blue river. 



an oval recess having in the floor a number of holes. This milling 

 room is decorated with a rain-cloud design in red ocher. 



One hundred yards southeast of this site is a large cavate shelter 

 showing no traces of houses, but containing quantities of flint flakes, 

 fragments of rather good pottery, and other evidences of human 

 occupancy. 



No. 31. Pueblo. — This large ruin is located on the terrace opposite 

 the Stockton ranch house, about one-half mile from the ruins just 

 described. It was a polygonal stone pueblo, made up of several 

 house masses irregularly disposed along the back of the level terrace, 

 leaving a plaza 100 feet deep in front of the houses. On the plaza 



