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BLACK FALLS KlUNS 



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of moderate elevation. Most of the walls built on the rim, continuous 

 with the mesa sides, have fallen, but sections of the houses 10 feet 

 high still remain, and the roof beams and wattling may be seen in 

 place in one or two rooms. 



There are some fragments of broken metates made of lava, many 

 potsherds, and a considerable pile of debris at the base of the mesa. 

 Ruin A can be seen from the highest point, and the distant ruin A of 

 group C is plainly visible. The conetery is on the east side, among 

 the rocks at the base of the mesa. 



Fig. y. Buiu a, groui) c, from the south. 

 Group C 



RUIN A 



This ruin, which lies 40 miles by road from Flagstaff and 5 miles 

 due west of Black falls, is one of the most impressive masses of al)o- 

 riginal masonry in this section (plates xvil-xix, figure 9). It is 

 visible for many miles, and from a distance resembles an old castle 

 as it looms from the north end of an isolated, oblong, red-sandstone 

 mesa rising 15 feet above the plain. The south end of the mesa is 

 higher than the north extremity, and on its rim appears to have been 

 built a low wall inclosing a plaza. Standing walls cover al)out one- 

 haK the surface of the mesa. On its east side, about midway of its 



