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valley. One pit was carried down into the hardpan, and in this 

 stratum the remains of a badly eroded human skeleton were encoun- 

 tered. No pottery or other 

 artificial objects accompanied 

 the bones. 



No. 82. Pueblo. — One quar- 

 ter of a mile south of the 

 Spur Ranch house there is a 

 rectangular ruin G5 by 102 

 feet, situated on the slope 15 

 feet above the level bottom 

 land. This slope and the 

 terrace surrounding Los 

 Lentes fields are composed 

 of angular and subrounded 

 detritus. The building stone 

 is a red brown volcanic rock 

 which occurs in slabs and 

 blocks, and the remains of 

 walls lying on the surface 



F!G. 32. Plan of ruin no. 82. Spur ranch. ^ ^ ^^ covered with 



lichens, indicating a long subjection to atmospheric and vegetal 

 agencies. The boundaries of the exterior walls of the ruin can be 

 followed with some degree of 

 accuracy, but the arrange- 

 ment of the rooms is not 

 clear, on account of the de- 

 bris which covers them. The 

 debris forms a considerable 

 mound at the western end of 

 the ruin, where originally the 

 pueblo was not less than two 

 stories high. The house ref- 

 use is large in amount and 

 contains chips of chalcedony 

 and very little obsidian. The 

 pottery is brown and red, 

 the latter polished and the 

 former decorated with scores 

 traversing narrow coils. 



No. 83. Pueblos. — One mile 

 southwest of the Spur Ranch 

 house are two small stone 

 pueblos situated on a spur of 

 the terrace which overlooks the cultivated land. They are rectangu 

 lar, and adjoining them are circular " reservoirs." 



Fig. 33. Plan of ruins no. 83, Spur ranch. The upper 

 ruin shows successive constructions. 



