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Cultural Resource Re -Visitation Form <br />Resource Number: 5MF.4003 Temporary Resource Number: <br />17. Site Description/Update: <br />Site 5MF.4003 was originally recorded in 1995 by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants for the Colowyo Coal Company <br />Lease and Exploration Areas: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory project. The site includes a historic homestead and <br />an open prehistoric camp situated along the banks of Wilson Creek. The reported prehistoric cultural material included <br />100+ white chert tertiary flakes, numerous HAR fragments, three manos, one quartzite flake, three obsidian flakes, a <br />chert endscraper, and a utilized flake. The historic portion of the site consists of three buildings, an underground <br />storage structure, a corral, and a surface trash scatter. Building 1 is a log outhouse, Buildings 2 and 3 are both log <br />structures, and Building 4 is a stone dugout with uncut stone walls and an earthen roof. The artifact scatter consists of <br />mainly building materials such as logs, lumber, brick, cement, corrugated metal, and asphalt/tar paper in addition to <br />miscellaneous trash including utensils, stove parts, nuts, bolts, buckets, wagon/car parts, buttons, fabric, leather and <br />barrels. The site was revisited in 2005 by TRC as part of the Collom Mine Expansion project. During this revisit, the <br />prehistoric component was observed to be in similar condition as when it was recorded in 1995. New material was <br />identified consisting of approximately 15 opaque white chert debitage, approximately 10 pieces of HAR, and two <br />manos. <br />In 2015 Tetra Tech revisited the site as part of the current undertaking. The historic component was found to be in <br />worse condition than when it was previously recorded in 2005. Buildings 1 and 2 have been demolished and pushed <br />into a single pile by an unknown unknown activity. A large area of vegetation removal appears to have occurred in the <br />north end of the site at and immediately west of Buildings 1 and 2. The date of the post -2005 disturbance is unknown. <br />The remaining features/buildings have experienced normal deterioration expected of abandoned historic era structures. <br />Building 3 has one sunken wall, and the ceiling has collapsed. Building 4 has had the roof collapse. The historic trash <br />scatter currently consists of sanitary cans, paint cans, glass fragments, barbed wire and metal debris. The prehistoric <br />component was also relocated. Two manos, a stone tool, and the concentration of approximately 25 white chert tertiary <br />flakes were all relocated. A new finding is a sandstone pestle with one rounded and one ground end measuring 9.3 cm <br />by 3.3 cm by 3 cm. No new significant impacts or changes to the prehistoric component were observed. <br />18. Photograph Numbers: 114-520317:7-15 <br />Digital files at: On file at Tetra Tech's Salt Lake City, Utah Office <br />19. Artifact and Field Documentation Storage Location: Documents on file at Tetra Tech's Salt Lake City, Utah <br />Office. Copies will be available through Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. <br />20. Report Title: Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Western Fuels -Colorado, Colowyo Coal Company's Collom <br />Expansion Project, Moffat County, Colorado <br />21. Recorder(s): M. Karpinski, J. Dugmore <br />Date: 9/9/2015 <br />22. Recorder Affiliation: Tetra Tech <br />Phone Number/Email: (801) 3646884; Mark. Karpinski@tetratech.com <br />Note: Please attach a sketch map, a photocopy of the USGS quad. map indicating resource location, and <br />photographs. <br />History Colorado — Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation <br />1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 <br />303-866-3395 <br />Page 3 of 3 <br />