MINDELEFF] A RUIN ON A LEDGE 1283 
little benches tilted up at an angle of about 45 degrees. By the exer- 
cise of some agility, one can ascend along these benches. About half- 
way between the site of the ruin and the stream bed there is a narrow 
horizontal bench, and again halfway between this bench and the ruin 
there is another, about 55 feet above the stream. Access to the ruins 
is greatly facilitated by these intermediate ledges. 
The bench on which the ruin occurs is about 250 feet long and gen- 
erally about 20 feet wide, the surface being almost flat. There are 
structures on the extreme northern and on the extreme southern ends, 
but a considerable part of the intermediate area was not occupied. 
Reference to the ground plan (figure 24) will show that most of the 
buildings occur on the northern half of the ledge, which was fairly 



Fic. 23—Ruin No. 10 on a ledge ina cove. 
well filled by them. Many of the walls in this portion are apparently 
underlaid by a foot or more of ashes, sheep dung, domestic refuse, 
cornhusks, ete. 
The room which is shown in the center of the plan, at the southern end 
of the main group, stood alone and was the largest rectangular room 
in the village. It covered an area 15 feet by 9 feet inside the walls, 
which are now 5 or 6 feet high. The masonry is very good, although 
chinking with spalls was but slightly employed to finish the exterior; 
inside itis more apparent. The western wall was built over the edge of 
the sloping rock forming the back of the cove, as shown on the plan, 
and this rock projects below the wall into the room. There were ap- 
parently no openings in the walls, except some very small ones on the 
