ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES
[1.][ a],Butte Ruin.
[b],Aztec Spring Ruin.
[c],Surouaro, Yellow Jacket Spring Ruin.
[2.][ a],Blanchard Ruin.
[b],Blanchard Ruin, Mound 2.
[c],Surouaro, Yellow Jacket Spring Ruin.
[3.][ a],Acmen Ruin.
[b],Mud Spring Ruin.
[4.][ a],Building on rock pinnacle, near Stone Arch, Sand Canyon.
[b],Stone Arch, Sand Canyon.
[5.][ a],Tower in Sand Canyon.
[b],Unit type House in Sand Canyon.
[6.][ a],Stone Arch House, Sand Canyon.
[b],Cliff-house, showing broken corner.
[7.][ a],Scaffold in Sand Canyon.
[b],Storage cist in Mancos Valley.
[c],Pictographs near Unit type House in cave.
[8.] Double cliff-dwelling, Sand Canyon.
[9.][ a],Cliff-dwelling under Horseshoe Ruin.
[b],Cliff-dwelling, Ruin Canyon.
[10.][ a],Kiva of cliff ruin, Lost Canyon.
[b],Cliff ruin, Lost Canyon.
[11.][ a],Square Tower in Square Tower Canyon.
[b],Tower in McLean Basin.
[c],Ruin in Hill Canyon, Utah.
[12.] Head of South Fork, Square Tower Canyon.
[13.] North Fork of Square Tower Canyon, looking west.
[14.][ a],Hovenweep House and Hovenweep Castle, from the south.
[b],Hovenweep Castle, from the west.
[c],Hovenweep Castle, from the south.
[15.][ a],West end of Twin Tower, showing small cliff-house.
[b],Twin Towers, Square Tower Canyon, from the south.
[c],Tower 4, junction of North and South Forks, Square Tower Canyon.
[16.][ a],Hovenweep Castle, with Sleeping Ute Mountain, South Fork, Square Tower Canyon.
[b],Entrance to South Fork, Square Tower Canyon.
[17.] Stronghold House, Square Tower Canyon.
[18.][ a],Head of Holly Canyon.
[b],South side of Hovenweep Castle, Square Tower Canyon.
[19.][ a],Holly Canyon group, from the east.
[b],Great House at head of Holly Canyon, from the north.
[c],Unit type Ruin, from the east.
[20.][ a],Great House at head of Holly Canyon, from the south.
[b],Ruin B at head of Holly Canyon, from the west.
[c],Great House at head of Holly Canyon.
[21.][ a],Great House, Holly Canyon.
[b],Stronghold House and Twin Towers, Square Tower Canyon.
[22.][ a],Hovenweep Castle.
[b],Southern part of Cannonball Ruin, McElmo Canyon.
[23.][ a],Square tower with rounded corners, Holly Canyon.
[b],Holly Tower in Holly Canyon.
[c],Horseshoe House.
[24.][ a],Horseshoe Ruin.
[b],Bowlder Castle, Road (Wickyup) Canyon.
[25.][ a],Closed doorway in Bowlder Castle, Road (Wickyup) Canyon.
[b],Broken-down round tower, Square Tower Canyon.
[26.][ a],North side of tower, Square Tower Canyon.
[b],D-shaped tower near Davis ranch, Yellow Jacket Canyon.
[c],Model of towers in McLean Basin.
[27.] Round tower and D-shaped tower in McLean Basin.
[28.][ a],D-shaped tower in McLean Basin, showing cross section of wall.
[b],Round tower in McLean Basin, showing standing stone slab.
[29.][ a],Holmes Tower, Mancos Canyon.
[b],Lion Tower, Yellow Jacket Canyon.
[30.][ a],Tower above cavate storehouses, Mancos Canyon, below bridge.
[b],Tower on mesa between eroded cliffs and bridge over Mancos Canyon, on Cortez Ship-rock Road.
[31.][ a],Tower above cavate storehouses, Mancos Canyon, below bridge.
[b],Eroded shale formation in which are small walled cavate storehouses.
[32.][ a],Reservoir near Picket corral, showing retaining wall.
[b],Kiva, Unit type House, Square Tower Canyon.
[33.]Pictographs, Yellow Jacket Canyon.
TEXT FIGURES
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1.Ground plan of Aztec Spring Ruin  [26]
2.Ground plan of Wood Canyon Ruin[32]
3.Metes and bounds of Emerson Ruin[34]
4.Schematic ground plan of Emerson Ruin[35]
5.Ground plan of Unit type House in cave[39]
6.Square Tower Canyon[45]
7.Ground plan of Hovenweep House[46]
8.Ground plan of Hovenweep Castle[47]
9.Ground plan of Twin Towers[50]
10.Ground plan of Unit type House[51]
11.Holly Canyon Ruins[52]
12.Horseshoe (Hackberry) Canyon[53]
13.Ground plan of Horseshoe House[54]
14.Ground plan of Davis Ruin[55]
15.Ground plan of Lion House[55]
16.Ground plan of ruin with towers in McLean Basin[56]
17.Doorway in Round Tower, McLean Basin[57]
18.Megalithic stone inclosure, McElmo Bluff[61]

PREHISTORIC VILLAGES, CASTLES, AND
TOWERS OF SOUTHWESTERN
COLORADO

By J. Walter Fewkes