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Situated on the mesa, about a mile south of Adamsville and five 

 miles from Florence, there is another cluster of mounds (figure 

 119), one of which may be called a compound, since it is surrounded 

 by a wall 271 by 173 feet. The three sides of a clan house ruin rise 

 on another of these mounds (plate xxxvn, a, b). Its walls, which 

 measure 25 feet long by 13 feet wide, above ground, are now badly 



Fig. 119. — Adamsville Compound; A, mound, B, C, clan houses 



eroded at their base. Another of these mounds, oval in form, may 

 have served as a well, for it has a central depression and sloping 

 sides at each end of the longer axis. 



The mound near Sweetwater (figure 120), about five miles west 

 of Sacaton, is small and low, rising but slightly above the surround- 

 ing plain. It shows no remnant of its walls above ground, but, so 



