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| no partners | | I literally found this site on accident. I was not looking for Indian ruins in the mountains surrounding Queen Valley. The site sticks out like a neon sign on Google Earth. I just had to check it out. What I found was an amazing very large complex ruin site. The site consists of a main large perimeter walled dwelling with extensive interior rooms. Outside of the large walled dwelling are numerous smaller dwellings primarily on the south slope. There's also a small dwelling visible on Google Earth located on rugged ridge southeast of the primary site. I did not explore that outer ridge dwelling. Both sites are noted on my attached Google Earth image. Artifacts are few and far between but you can find some stuff with a keen eye. The site was likely gutted when the Whitlow Dam was constructed. That would be my guess anyways. I'm sure the engineers explored all of the surrounding hills prior to construction. This was a really interesting site. It's so big and the walls are in surprisingly good shape. I just sampled the main hilltop site. There's more to find. The pottery shards that I found were within the more obscure broken down outer dwellings. Cool stuff!
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