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ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. 



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on its northern and eastern sides, and in this case the walls are built 

 solidly at one time, not consisting, as in the jjrevious case, of two walls 

 of ordinary thickness built side by side. An inspection of the ground 

 plan will show that in both these cases this feature is anomalous and 

 probably uuinii)ortant. 



A ruin of the same general type as that just described, but much 

 smaller in size, is found about 6 miles farther northward on the east- 

 ei'n side of the river. It is located on the riv-er edge of a large semi- 

 circular flat or terrace, near its northern end, and is built of flat slabs 

 of limestone and river bowlders. It is rectangular in plan and of mod- 

 erate size. On the southern end of the same flat are two single-room 

 rancher's houses and a large corral. The rooms in this ruin are oblong 

 and similar in size and arrangement to those just des(!ribed. 



|\| About 11 miles above the last-described ruin, 



or 17 miles above the large ruin near Lime- 

 stone creek, there is another small ruin of the 

 same general type as the last, located on a 

 similar site, and in all respects, except size, 

 closely similar to it. 



About 3 miles below the mouth of the East 

 Verde there is still another ruin of similar 

 character, located on the edge of a mesa or 

 bench overlooking the river. It is built of 

 bowlders and slabs of rock. Like the others 

 this ruin is rectangular in plan and of small 

 size. 



About 10 miles north of the mouth of Fossil 

 creek, on the point of a bench or terrace on the 

 western side of the river, and perhaps 20 feet 

 above it, occurs a small ruin, similar in charac- 

 FiG. 279.— Sketch map, site ofter to the preceding. The river here makes a 



small ruin 10 miles uorth of Fos- in 



sii I reek. long tum eastward, then flows south again, and 



in the angle a small bench or terrace is formed. At this point the 

 mountains rise abruptly from the river on both sides to a height of over 

 a thousand feet. Fig. 279 illustrates the location of this ruin. So far 

 as could be distinguished from the hills opposite, the rooms occur in 

 two broken lines at right angles to each other. 



These four small ruins are all closely similar to the large ruin 

 described above in all respects except size, and peculiarities of ground 

 plan attendant on size. The rooms are always rectangular, generally 

 oblong, and arranged without regularity as regards their longer axis- 

 Except the one last described, the ruins consist of compact masses of 

 rooms, without evidences of interior courts, all of very small size, and 

 all located without reference to defense. The last-described ruin differs 

 from the others only in the arrangement of rooms. There is ])racti- 

 cally no standing wall remaining in any of them, and even now they 

 can be seen for miles from the hills above. When the walls were 



