Archeological investigations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Inverted Cone Ruin

Fig. 15.—Inverted cone ruin.

The best example of the mushroom type of ruin, shown in the accompanying figure ([fig. 15]) is about 6 miles up the canyon from Taylor’s ranch on the right hand side of Hill Canyon. It is clearly visible from the road which follows the stream and has a wide outlook up and down the valley. Although the top of the rock on which this ruin stands would at first sight appear to be inaccessible, Mr. Owen, by means of a log, surmounted it and reported that its surface is flat and that the walls thereon are about 20 feet long and five feet wide, enclosing a roughly oval chamber, as their outline follows the rim of the top of the rock. These walls, when seen from the road with a good glass, appear as low ridges constructed of indifferent masonry.