Following the Old Bluff Road and leaving it about 5 miles west of
Acmen post office, one comes to a low canyon beyond Pigge ranch. The
heaps of stone or large mounds cover an area of about 10 acres, the
largest being about 15 feet high. East of this is a circular depression
surrounded by stones, indicating either a reservoir or a ruined
building.
The top of the highest mound (pl. 3, _a_)—no walls stand above the
surface—is depressed like mounds of the Mummy Lake group on the Mesa
Verde. This depression probably indicates a circular kiva embedded
in square walls, the masonry of which so far as can be judged
superficially is not very fine. There are many smaller mounds in the
vicinity and evidences of cemeteries on the south, east, and west
sides, where there are evidences of desultory digging; fragments of
pottery are numerous.
These mounds indicate a considerable village which would well repay
excavation, as shown by the numerous specimens of corrugated, black and
white, and red pottery in the Pigge collection, made in a small mound
near the Pigge ranch.
The specimens in this collection present few features different from
those indicated by the fragments of pottery picked up on the larger
mounds a mile west of the site where they were excavated. They are the
same as shards from the mounds in the McElmo region.