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by the mound of eroded adobe. The configuration of the roof (pitched, flat, etc.) is wrknown, thougl ' it is suspected to have been steeply pitched, with the ridge line running the length of the structure (northeast to southwest). Heat-altered artifacts are present, as well as burned timbers and milled lumber, and scorched and oxidized adobe and earth. The burning of the structure was confirmed by materials found in Test Pit 9, excavated within the structure. Test Pit 9 revealed the collapsed roof and floor of Stmctwe 1. It is clear that the structure burned, the roof collapsed, and then the adobe walls of the structure eroded to their current state, slowly covering the stratigraphic sequence of floor, roof beams, and corrugated tin roofing material. The corrugated tin was placed over vigas, and it is entirely possible that the roof was originally ' finished with latillas, which were replaced or covered by the metal roof later in the site's occupation. Evidence of lotillas was not found in Test Pit 9, though they may have burned completely. The floor was constructed oftongue-and-groove milled lumber and was intensely burned. Many azchitectural ' artifacts (i.e. cut and wire nails, adobe brick fragments, whitewash, etc.) were found in Test Pit 9 within the structwe, as well as Test Pit 5, excavated just to the southeast of Structure 1. ' The combined use of vigas and milled lumber further suggest a Territorial style of architecture dating ca. 1860s-1870s. The building has dimensions of approximately 10 m (30 fr) ' (NE/SW) x 5 m (15 fl) (NW/SE). The orientation of the structwe tends to suggest an Hispanic New Mexican builder. A study conducted by Carrillo and Kalasz (1990) on architectural structures associated with archivally derived occupants in the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, located in the N middle Pwgatoire region, found that 41% (or 113) had doorway orientations facing south and east. The archaeological remains and archaeological patterning suggests that New Mexican Hispanic occupants were associated with sites leaving distinctive architectural and archaeological variables ' between ca. 1875-] 900. Structure ]contains similar characteristics Additional features include Structure 2, a later feature thought to be related to the mining ' activity in the 1440s-1960s. This "structure" includes a "floor" constructed of heavy milled lumber joists or stringers, on which heavy planking has been attached. Evidence of walls or a roof is ' lacking. Cardboard boxes of geological core samples have been stacked in two rows on tltis "floor". There are also several large rolls of heavy plastic sheeting, which may be rolled plastic tubing used to package the core samples. The cardboard boxes and plastic are disintegrating and it is clear that ' the core samples have been their for some time. Other features and artifact clusters are present at the site (Figure 1). Structure 3 is the ' remains of a jacal barn or shed and associated pen area southwest of Structure 2 in the southwest comer of the site. Featwe 4 is a probable dugout or mine on the hillside east of Structure 1. Featwe 5 is a probable platform area associated with completely melted adobe structural remains with no ' visible foundation southwest of Structure 1. The strvctwal remains at Structure 2 may be associated with Featwe 5. Feature 6 is the remains of a probable wagon road that generally defines the northern and western site boundary. Feature 7 is a partial stone foundation with no other structural remains ' southeast of Structure 1. Artifacts on the surface in the area of Feature 7 suggest a possible domestic • structwe. Evidence of an outhouse or privy pit is notably absent. Concentration 1 is a sheet scatter of historic artifacts in the northern and noriliwestern parts of the site. This concentration contains ' artifacts and materials more convnon to the later period of occupation of the site. Earlier, ca. 1870- 1