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privy or outhouse, recent trash, and a modern hearth are also located within the site. A two - <br />track road passes along the southern boundary of the site. A water -filled earthen dam/stock <br />tank is located at the edge of the saddle, 100 meters southwest of the site. <br />Feature 1 is a complex of four interconnected sheep containment corrals that defines <br />the entire eastern half of the site. The complex measures 205' in diameter. The fences that <br />form the corrals are constructed in a variety of techniques ranging from metal T -bar posts <br />with two strands of barbed wire atop vertical wooden 1" x 4" plank pickets, to milled lumber <br />posts supporting similar pickets, to lumber posts with hog wire, to horizontal slats of 1 " x 8" <br />and 1" x 12" milled lumber. The sheep chute in the center of the corral complex (Feature 2) <br />utilizes this latter technique for the most part. <br />Running east -west through the center of the corrals is Feature 2, a 185' long sheep <br />chute or "run" consisting of two parallel wooden fences with a run between the two that <br />measures approximately 2' wide at the west end and widens to approximately 7' at the east <br />end where gates allow for access to either the north or south corral. Smaller man -gates exist <br />in the south side of the sheep chute near its center and at its western terminus. In at least two <br />locations along the chute, the fences have breaks in them to allow boards to be slid through <br />for controlling the flow of the animals. <br />To the west of the corrals are the three trash concentrations and other features, both <br />recent and historic. <br />Trash Concentration A, approximately 25' west of the corrals, consists of a 20' <br />diameter pile of logs, posts, scrap lumber, and a wooden pallet. This wood is likely <br />concentrated here to serve as firewood for the modern fire ring that is several feet to the <br />southwest, along with an associated concentration of heat -altered cobbles nearby. <br />Trash Concentration B, approximately 45' northwest of Trash Concentration A, <br />consists of a 13' diameter pile of milled lumber and rubber matting. <br />Trash Concentration C, approximately 100' southwest of Trash Concentration B at the <br />southwest corner of the site, consists of a 40' diameter, T deep excavation containing <br />remnants of a coal and wood cook stove, buckets, deer bones, a wooden pallet, barbed wire, <br />beer bottles, a plastic wash tub, and fragments of wood, glass, plastic, and rubber. The trash <br />reflects materials ranging in age from the 1930s or earlier to the modern day. <br />Other than a few fragments of fencing materials and wire, a recent wine bottle, a <br />condensed milk can, a rusted food can, a fragment of milk glass Mentholatum jar, and a <br />fragment of earthenware, no other artifacts were noted on the site surface outside of the trash <br />concentrations. It is possible that more artifacts exist, but are masked by the dense ground <br />cover in the area. <br />North of Trash Concentration C is a drill hole or well casing made of ferrous metal <br />22 <br />