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The current project relocated the site in a tributary canyon over 500m, to the <br />northwest of the one in which the site was said to exist in the previous site records. The site <br />boundary has been enlarged to an area measuring 70m northeast -southwest by 20m <br />northwest -southeast in order to include the entirety of the occupied overhang and immediate <br />talus slope, and by the discovery of additional rock art elements, burnt bone, and charcoal <br />fragments. As the satellite coverage within the shelter was inadequate for GPS mapping, a <br />datum point was established outside of the dripline with a Trimble Geo XT Global <br />Positioning System (GPS) unit, and the entire site was mapped, including all rock art <br />elements, using a Brunton compass and metric tapes. <br />In addition to the rock art on the back wall of the overhang, a small battered and <br />polished pebble was noted on the surface of the site in front of Panel 3 and recorded as a <br />pecking and rubbing stone, two fragments of charcoal and a fragment of a burnt bone were <br />noted on the site surface. <br />Near the center of the main part of the overhang, an alcove (Plate 2) that measures <br />roughly 8m across the opening, and possibly as deep, exists in the upper back wall and <br />approximately l Om above the floor. It appears as if there is a level floor within this "Upper <br />Alcove", however it would be difficult, or impossible, to access the opening without ropes <br />and other technical climbing gear. A reddish -brown, relatively straight, limbed timber or <br />beam has been suspended across the northeast side of the alcove's opening for undetermined <br />purposes — either prehistorically or by modern souvenir hunters. At some point prior to the <br />1980 documentation, a length of baling wire was found looped over a knob of sandstone <br />bedrock on the northeast edge of the Upper Alcove. Both ends of this wire remain in place, <br />dangling below the alcove for several meters, with a series of unmodified sticks hanging from <br />it at intervals. The lowest stick rests on the floor of the overhang below the Upper Alcove. It <br />is speculated that this served as a sort of "ladder" for access to the alcove, as tenuous and <br />improbable as this seems. <br />All rock art and cultural ("tool -sharpening") grooves in the sandstone face were <br />photographed, and overviews of the site were taken from within and outside of the overhang. <br />The site as a whole, and the individual rock art elements appear as they did in 1980. <br />Although the rock art had been severely impacted by bullet holes by the time of the original <br />recording, no subsequent vandalism appears to have taken place since that time. No evidence <br />of pot hunting, or subsurface excavation of any kind, is visible on floor of the overhang, <br />however, it can be assumed that access was gained to the Upper Alcove. <br />IN <br />