AZ 9 22 2024

The hill was steep and without cliffs. Dense vegetation covered the way to the site and the site itself. An L-Shaped wall ended in a natural linear boulder outcrop and used them to form an enclosure at the top of the hill. The core veneer rubble filled wall was around 2m wide. The highest part of the wall was about 1.5m. The long side was about 35m SWW/NEE. The short side was about 7m NNW/SSE. A cluster of boulders formed the corner. There appeared to be very little wall fall, but visibility was low due to dense vegetation. We believe the wall was mostly intact and probably close to its original height. The long side hit the boulder corner at a natural megalith. The short side wall architecture had a different style on each side of an incorporated upright boulder. A boulder wall was on the left and a slab wall was on the right of the incorporated upright. The long wall was built with boulders. The boulders at the most NE end of the wall had 2 difficult to see petroglyphs. Glyph1 was a circle with parallel lines inside. After much staring at Glyph2, we decided it was probably a quadruped. We did not find any loopholes or entries in the wall. We did not find any pottery. Natural quartz was scattered around the site. One quartz lithic was found. Agave was at the bottom, but we saw none on the hill.
for more information on prehistoric hilltop enclosures in AZ to to golio.net/

[@thomasdaum1927]

Very beautiful , thanks for sharing this adventure with us !……..

[@GolioEndeavors]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@phillivingston8237]

Very interesting wall and great scenic views. Thanks for sharing.

[@GolioEndeavors]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@FlatWaterFilms]

Cool drone footage. 🙂

[@GolioEndeavors]

Thanks 👍

[@ShambhalinGardens-n2i]

Where?

[@GolioEndeavors]

Unfortunately, the archaeology community considers it inappropriate to reveal locations, or even rough locations, of archaeology sites.