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| Continuing on the Lakin trail is a long platform that parallels
the eastern edge of the trail. This ancient structure has two low,
elongated wings attached to the north and south of the taller mass.
Across the road, and directly west of this building, one of the major
pyramids at El Pilar looms over the area beckoning you through this
neighborhood and onto the monuments. |
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| The winged platform immediately in front of you is almost
a miniature copy of the one above on Plaza Copal, but it is built
of chert nodules, stones
often utilized by the Maya for tool production. These nodules are
visible on the surface of this structure. |
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| The path leads up and onto the hilltop to a spacious
group of buildings. The large mound to your right as you first reach
the summit is a collapsed stone building. From there, you parallel
a long low stone platform that probably supported a thatched structure.
In the center of the plaza, next to the path, are the remains of a
large crumbling stone that was once a Maya altar, testifying to the
significance of this plaza group in ancient times. As you leave this
group, the trail winds down the hill between two small mounds at the
north end. |
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