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ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN VERDE VALLEY. 



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this point is vertical. The main room is oblong, measuring 17 feet one 

 way and 10 the other. At the southern end there is a small cist and 

 on the western side near the entrance there is another hardly a foot in 

 diameter. North of the main room there is a small, roughly circular 

 room with a diameter of about 6 feet. It is connected with the main 

 room by a passage about 2 feet long. On the floor of the main room 

 there are two low ridges of clay, similar to those already described, 

 which divide it into three sections of nearly equal size. 



East of the main room there is another of considerable size in the 

 form of a bay or cove. It measures 13 feet by 6 feet, and its floor is 20 

 inches higher than that of the main room, as sliown in the section (figure 

 295). Attached to this bay, at its northern end, is a small cist about 3 



SSCTION THROUGH. A B. 



DoOR*VAY. 



SCCTION THffOOGH CD. 



Fig. 295. — Stiftions of cav.ate lodges, group A . 



feet in diameter, and with its floor sunk to the level of the floor of the 

 main room. East of the cove there is another cist about 4i feet in 

 diameter and with its floor on the level of the cove. Adjoining it on 

 the south and leading out from the southeastern corner of the cove or 

 bay, there is a long passage leading into an almost circular room 9 

 feet in diameter. The back wall of this room is 33 feet from the face 

 of the cliff. The passage leading into it is 6 feet long, 2J feet wide at 

 the doorways, bulging slightly in the center, and its floor is on the same 

 level as the rooms it connects; its eastern end is defined by a ridge of 

 clay about 6 inches high. 



