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building, whose rude walls were oriented due east and west, while 

 the later building follows the customary orientation. In a number of 

 instances among the Spur Ranch ruins evidence was secured going to 

 prove that frequently former constructions were razed, the sites being 

 regraded and built upon. For this reason the burials which cus- 

 tomarily were made in the ac- 

 cumulations of debris near the 

 houses are represented only by 

 fragments of skeletons and pot- 

 tery dispersed in the soil. Ex- 

 cavation at this place as on 

 sites similarly affected was pro- 

 ductive of few material results. 

 In one pit, however, which was 

 sunk below the zone of soil 

 containing human artifacts, 

 the remains of a human skele- 

 ton accompanied with deer 

 bones and rude flint flakes were 

 encountered. The remains were 

 in clean, hard-packed, coarse 

 wash gravel, which to all ap- 

 pearance retained the charac- 

 teristics of its deposition from 

 water. The ^position of the find suggests antiquity. 



On the higher portion of the ridge on which this ruin stands is 

 a shrine, and near it a number of large stones rudely aligned. (See 

 fig. 38.) 



No. 88. Pueblo. — A small ruin exists in the flat below no. 86, near 

 the foundation of an old Mexi- 

 can house. (See fig. 38.) 



No. 89. Pueblo. — Lying on 

 the north side of the valley 

 halfway between the ranch 

 house and the San Francisco 

 river is a ruin consisting of two 

 rectangular house masses ad- 

 joining a " reservoir." A short 

 distance to the north of these 

 ruins is a terrace, at the rear of 



which is a heap of stones, and to the south are two shrines filled with 

 stone concretion offerings. 



No. 90. Pueblo. — This ruin lies on the south side of the valley 2^ 

 miles south by east of the Spur Ranch house, near the San Francisco 

 river, at kk Mill Place." It is merely a rectangular stone ruin 45 by 

 51 feet in dimensions and does not possess a " reservoir." 



Fig. 36. Plan of ruin no. S6, Spur ranch. 



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Fig. 37. Plan of ruin C, Arroyo group, Spur ranch. 



