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traffic during wet weather. The site appears to lack any substantial research potential. <br />GRI's revisit during this project indicated that no changes to the site were noted. New <br />photographs were taken to document the present condition. <br />Evaluation and Recommendation <br />The site was field evaluated by Alpine as not eligible for listing on the National <br />Register of Historic Places. This site is not associated with historically significant events, <br />persons, distinctive design/construction, and lacks potential to yield additional information <br />important to the history of the area (Criteria A, B, C and D). The site has been declared <br />officially not eligible by the State Historic Preservation Officer (2005). There is no change to <br />that assessment with the present revisit and no further work is recommended. <br />Site 5DT1719, is a prehistoric open camp, originally recorded by John K. Williams, <br />David Sabata, Ben Ludwig, Matthew Galloway of Smith Environmental in 2007. The <br />following description was derived from their original site form. <br />The site is situated at an elevation of 7400 feet on a bench overlooking Terror <br />Creek to the east. Artifacts were observed eroding from an area devoid of trees and <br />brush, along a gentle east - facing slope. Surrounding the site are thick groves of <br />Gambel oak and Mountain mahogany. <br />An access road runs through the site, and artifacts were observed eroding down <br />the road. The site boundaries were defined on the basis of observable artifacts, which <br />were only found in the clearing and along the road. The site might be larger, but the <br />surrounding brush precluded the identification of additional artifacts. The location of <br />the site affords good views of the surrounding landscape to the north, east and south, <br />and provides easy access to the West Fork and Terror Creek. The site is an open lithic <br />camp consisting of an accumulation of lithic debitage and tools and a groundstone <br />metate. Recorded tools include a small, side - notched projectile point with a basal <br />notch, and a dark chert scraper and retouched flake. A basalt metate fragment was also <br />recorded, measuring 16 x 15cm. In addition, 10 flakes and several pieces of shatter <br />were recorded. The morphological characteristics of the projectile point match those of <br />a Desert Side - Notched projectile point. Desert Side - Notched projectile points were <br />used throughout the Protohistoric Era, and, less commonly, in the preceding Formative <br />Era. The potential for subsurface artifacts is high, judging from the presence of lithic <br />debitage within eroded portions of the access road running through the site. Several <br />small gullies have formed along this road from runoff, exposing up to 20cm of matrix <br />below the modern land surface. Recent activities were noted at the site. A steel T -post <br />was found near the center of the site, which was used as the datum for this recording, <br />and rebars were found scattered throughout the site. In the northern portion of the site, <br />four rebars formed a rough ly 1x1 in pattern, which resembles an excavation unit. It <br />does not, however, appear to have been excavated; at least not within the past several <br />25 <br />