This is the Fallen Roof ruin, named because the roof fell down. Literally. This small ruin sits tucked into an alcove in Bears Ears National Monument. It is small and the photograph shows three rounded structures next to each other, each one being eight to ten feet across. Each one has a window, or more accurately, an egress point in the center of it. As it sits, the ruin is wholly unremarkable and looks like the thousands of others just like it across this area. It was likely a storage or granary. What makes this unique is the roof of the alcove, parts of which have fallen. And that, in turn, makes for a spectacular photograph. The roof fell in large, irregular chunks which are now sitting on the alcove floor. Even better, the fallen parts reveal the soot that crept into the nooks and crannies from the fires that were built over the years, leaving a distinct soot pattern. Photographed in even lighting, Fallen Roof is an even yellowish-orange tone, with the soot pattern flailing out in the roof, with the granaries nestled against the wall. Large pieces of the roof lay on the floor, each a good twelve to eighteen inches thick.
Fallen Roof
We will endure.
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