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built partly of hewn blocks & partly of rubble. It had an entrance or gateway in front of the stairs leading to the top of temple. The upper part of the temple wall has been partly destroyed to furnish material for a dam at a reservoir built for irrigating below the hill. This vandalism is not permitted by the present gov't. & I was informed that a local official is charged with the protection of the ruin. This protection is a nominal affair however, since several large cacti & young trees growing on the summit are forcing their roots between the blocks of stone & tumbling them down.