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cate that corner of a rectangular pueblo. Hovenweep House (pi. 

 14, a) was the largest building in this canyon, but with the exception 

 of the addition of a semicircular tower or great house, does not differ 

 greatly from, a pueblo like Far View House on the Mesa Verde. The 

 piles of stone and earth indicating rooms below justify the conjec- 

 ture that when the fallen debris is removed the unfallen walls will 

 still rise several feet above their rocky foundations. If properl}?- 

 excavated, Hovenweep House would be an instructive building, but 

 in its present condition, while very picturesque, its structure is 

 difficult to determine. 



Fio. 8. — Ground plun of Hoyenweep Castle. 



Hovenweep Castle 



This ruin (pis. 14, b, c; 18, b), like the preceding , x has circular kivas 

 compactly embedded in rectangular rooms arranged about them, indi- 

 cating the pure type of pueblos. The massive-walled semicircular 

 towers and great houses are combined with square rooms and kivas, 

 indicating that it is distinguished by two sections, an eastern and a 

 western, which, united, impart to the whole the shape of a letter L 

 (fig. 8). 



WESTERN section of hovenweep castle 



The western section (fig. 8, A-D, M) of 'Hovenweep Castle is made 

 up of five rooms, the most western of which, M, is semicircular, while 

 A, B, C, and D are rectangular. Room A is almost square, one of its 

 walls forming the straight wall of the south side of the semicircular 



