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Few artifacts were found in this upper story. Behind the loop- 
holed wall was a bed of dry grass under blown sand, and beneath 
the grass were a fragment of matting, an arrow foreshaft, frag- 
ments of two bowls and an olla. The bowls were of normal Kayenta 
style, one red-and-yellow, one black-and-white; the olla was quite 
different, strongly resembling the pottery from the lower levels of 
Fluteplayer House and that from the ruins on the rock bench next 
to be described. 
Ruins oN THE Rock BENCH 
Opposite the mouth of Olla House draw the canyon broadens out 
a little and is almost blocked by a dome-shaped, sandy hill. At its 
northern foot there is a spring; beyond this the canyon wall rises in 
a series of rocky benches, or steps, on the second of which, as well as 
on the sand hill in the valley, are the remains of a former extensive 
settlement. 
The ruins on the bench consist of thirty or more round or oval in- 
closures, scattered irregularly over the whole slope. The circles, 
which vary from 6 to 10 feet in diameter, are made of large sand- 
stone slabs set on edge. Excavation showed that each house had 
a hard floor of packed adobe, seemingly without a regular fireplace. 
The wall slabs are sunk into the ground from 5 to 8 inches below the 
floor. There do not seem to have been lateral doorways, the inclos- 
ure being usually unbroken. In some cases the rooms are partly 
sunk into the side hill, making them semisubterranean. As there is 
practically no fallen building stone in or about them, we think it 
probable that their upper parts were of the same “turtleback” 
adobe construction that was observed by us in similar round rooms 
with slab foundations at Fluteplayer House. This view is further 
strengthened by the type of pottery found in the foot or so of sand, 
charcoal, and ashes which covered the floor of each inclosure. It is 
of exactly the same style, both black-and-white and coarse black 
with broad flat coils about the neck, as that found at Fluteplayer 
House. In the rooms themselves we found no Kayenta sherds, and 
very few of them among the thousands of fragments that litter the 
surface of this bench. 
The sand hill is also covered with identical sherds, chips, and 
other signs of occupancy. There were apparently many of the slab- 
circle rooms here, but they have practically all been undermined by 
the blowing away of the sand, and the slabs have toppled over in 
all directions. On the crest of the hill are the remains of a series of 
rectangular cells—a single row, to all appearances, 50 feet long by 
8 feet wide. The walls, where they are visible, stand about 2 feet 
high, are of solid stone construction, and, from the amount of fallen 
