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through D, accordingly the current project agrees with the previous assessment. No further <br />work is recommended for the segment presently recorded. <br />Site 5MF7727, a pair of prehistoric isolated features, is located on a southwest -facing <br />ridge overlooking County Road 33 at an elevation of 7450 feet. The ridge top is vegetated <br />with dense serviceberry and Gamble oak, with an understory of grasses, sagebrush, yarrow, <br />snakeweed, lupine, mint, and wild rose. The nearest source of permanent water, Jeffway <br />Gulch, is located 935 meters to the west of the site. Soils are residual and consist of shallow, <br />light brown clay loam of an undetermined depth --apparently less than 50cm based on the <br />sandstone bedrock outcrops near the end of the prominence. The area is presently in use as <br />grazing for cattle. <br />A boundary measuring 150 by 50 meters has been established around the observed <br />cultural materials. The site is characterized by two unmodified cobble features and a linear <br />brush clearing. <br />Feature 1 is a roughly circular, or U-shaped, arrangement of 26 sandstone cobbles that <br />range in diameter from 9 to 37cm in diameter. The overall extent of the stone concentration <br />ranges in measurements from 2.7 to 3.7m in diameter. The individual stones are partially <br />buried in the residual soils. Additional stones are likely masked by the vegetation, or <br />completely buried in soil. Although it is apparent that virtually no earth -moving occurred, it <br />is unclear as to what mechanical means were employed to affect the clearing of the brush that <br />created the linear opening from the maintained dirt road to the end of the prominence. It is, <br />however, highly unlikely that the survey crew would have been able to discover the two stone <br />features had the dense serviceberry and Gamble oak not been cleared away. Additionally, it <br />is unclear as to whether the stones that make up the feature have been displaced at all by the <br />brush clearing activities, however the arrangement of the rocks, and the relative lack of <br />similar stones nearby make the cultural nature of the feature indisputable. The edge of the <br />prominence drops off approximately 24 meters to the southwest of Feature 1. <br />Feature 2, located 65m northeast of Feature 1, consists of a concentration of <br />approximately 30 sandstone cobbles in an area otherwise devoid of rocks. The concentration <br />measures approximately 1.5m in diameter. The rocks range in size from 9 to 40cm in <br />diameter, are notably buried in the soil, and exhibit a small amount of lichen on their exposed <br />surfaces. At 2.4m to the northwest of the concentration is a 165cm diameter, 20cm deep <br />circular depression in the ground surface, which, although it appears to have been there for <br />several years, appears significantly younger in age than Feature 2. Another very similar <br />depression was noted elsewhere on the project that appeared to be an elk, deer, and possible <br />cow "lick." <br />20 <br />