Pole-supported wall before repair, above you at Stake 5.
5. The ruin
here is four stories high at its tallest point—two stories against the rock and two stories above. To the rear of the iron beam, necessary to support the upper walls, you can see one of the original timbers used in construction of this dwelling.
The “amphitheater”
Notice the small opening in the wall above the stone-lined trench. With the trench below, it was used to conduct air to the interior rooms of the structure. As the dwelling was extended toward you from the higher portions, the added outside rooms blocked air from the older ones, necessitating a series of vents to take fresh air to the interior rooms.
The small rooms you see were used for storage of corn and beans, or other food products.
6. Here is a typical pueblo room
with a small storage bin in the rear. The metate (meh-TAH-tay) and mano (mah-no) in the background were used by the Indians to grind corn. Often two or three metates, with manos for each, are found in one room. This does not mean the room was used for grinding purposes only. As is often the case today among Pueblo Indians, the three metates are all made from rocks with different degrees of coarseness. Coarse metates were used for preliminary grinding and fine-grained ones for final grinding.