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vestige of what may have been a small room at the northeast corner 

 of this building, as is shown in the foreground of this same figure. 



The terrace wall passes very close to the north and south walls of 

 the building, but on the west there is a space of from three to four 

 feet, between the wall of the building and the terrace wall, which is 

 filled in with earth in true terrace form. The walls of the building 

 itself are in a fair state of preservation for ruins in this particular sec- 

 tion, showing a height of about eighteen inches in a number of places 

 and being fairly intact. The relation of the terrace to the remainder 

 of the structure is shown in figure 57. 



Fig. 58. — Southern end of the cobblestone mound at the Wall Creek 



pueblo ruin. 



The most interesting feature of this site, is a mound of cobble- 

 stones, located about twenty feet west of the building above mentioned. 

 This mound is about fifteen feet in width and thirty-five in length and 

 has an elevation of perhaps four feet. A closer view of the southern 

 portion of this mound is shown in figure 58. At first sight this mound 

 resembles some of the cairns which are found in the middle of fields in 

 this region. These cairns, however, are usually round and the stones 

 apparently thrown there in an attempt to clear the field. This mound, 



