The first image is a schemata of the Citadel at the edge of Carefree (more about it below).
The following are Google Earth views of ruins just west of Skull Mesa, located a few miles north of the above ruin.
The ruin on the right is perched on the side of a cliff, which falls off to the right –so a defensive wall couldn't be built and wouldn't be needed there.
Note that they not only follow the same shape as the Carefree ruin, they also align in exactly the same way in relation to North-South.
The defensive wall around the 'Squaw Creek' ruin on Perry Mesa follows the same geometry, and it too is 'cropped' by a cliff edge; I've overlaid the same lines on this image as on the above images.
The forts associates with the 'Perry Mesa Culture' on the Agua Fria plateau show a similar attention to geometric detail. All of them, with the exception of Pueblo La Plata, the northernmost ruin, align identically in relation to North-south, as I pointed out here.
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