HARTMAN: ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF COSTA RICA ail 
On a high hill about twenty minutes distance from the burial-ground Carillo 
showed me on my first visit an ancient stone enclosure, which must have served as 
a courtyard. This enclosure was nearly rectangular in shape, about twenty-three 
meters long and eleven meters broad. The low walls were about half a meter 
broad and made up of rough water-worn boulders and stones. The general direc- 
tion of the enclosure was HE. 20° N. by W. 20°S. 
An object here found was a fragment of stone with a sculptured eye (Pl. XXXII, 
Fig. 6), undoubtedly from one of the hollow animal heads of a metate, similar to 
those illustrated on Pl. XVIII, Fig. 4. 
Quite close to the burial-ground near Carillo’s house there were also some low 
but very irregular artificial heaps of stone. They were covered with thorny thick- 
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ets. I tried to excavate what appeared to be a couple of small rooms, but the 
ground, which consisted of hard clay, contained nothing, and had apparently never 
been disturbed. Fragments of pottery were scarce at both of these structures. 
Another ancient structure in the neighborhood of the burial-ground is a road 
about two meters broad and half a meter deep, cut in the clayey ground and run- 
ning northward over the high sierras. I crossed stretches of this road, which in 
parts is well defined, about two miles north of the burial-ground, and it can be 
traced to one of the mountain peaks of the neighborhood, where the ancients prob- 
ably had their settlements of perishable wooden huts. On the slopes and especially 
in the gullies of this mountain I found numerous pieces of large, crude pottery, 
plainly household vessels. According to Carillo and others the road of the ancients 
