This extensive ruin (pl. 3, _a_, _c_), 6 miles south from Zuñi station
on the Santa Fe railroad, and about 11 miles from Gallup, lies almost
directly opposite a conspicuous pinnacle of Wingate sandstone called
the Navaho Church. Its site is a low ridge extending north and south
for several hundred yards. None of the walls rise above the mounds
which are highest on the west side. There are numerous depressions
scattered among the mounds which suggest subterranean rooms of circular
form. A round depression 40 feet in diameter shows the remnant of a
wall on one side. On a “flat” north of the ruin several piles of stone
can be seen, which are interpreted as isolated houses; near one of them
is a small fireplace made of slabs of rock set on edge surrounding an
enclosure filled with ashes. This is without exception the largest
cluster of mounds in the immediate neighborhood of Gallup, and would
well repay excavation and further study.