Reports were brought to the author of large ruins on the rim of Wood
Canyon, about 4 miles south of Yellow Jacket post office, in October,
1918, when he had almost finished the season’s work. Two ruins of size
were examined, one of which, situated in the open sagebrush clearing,
belongs to the village type composed of large and small rectangular
mounds. The other is composed of small circular or semicircular
buildings with a surrounding wall. The form of this latter (fig. 2)
would seem to place it in a subgroup or village type. Approach to the
inclosed circular mounds was debarred by a high bluff of a canyon on
one side and by a low defensive curved wall (_E_), some of the stones
of which are large, almost megaliths, on the side of the mesa. From
fragmentary sections of the buried walls of one of these circular
mounds (_A_, _B_), which appear on the surface, it would seem that the
buildings were like towers (_C_, _D_). This is one of the few known
examples of circular buildings in an area protected by a curved wall.
In the cliffs below Wood Canyon Ruin is a cliff-dwelling (_G_, _H_,
_J_) remarkable mainly in its site.
[Illustration: FIG. 2.—Ground plan of Wood Canyon Ruin.]