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7.0 TESTING RESULTS <br />The sites that were tested during the fall of 2015 were previously recorded or revisited <br />during two lease modification projects in yr 2013 and 2014. Prehistoric isolated feature <br />(5MF7727) was recorded by Grand River Institute (GRI) archaeologists Curtis Martin and <br />Holly Shelton in late June of 2013 as part of the Class III cultural resources inventory for a <br />lease modification area of 860 acres (Conner et al. 2013). The remaining five sites (5MF319, <br />5MF7691, 5MF7692, 5MF7794, and 5MF7795) were recorded by Martin, Shelton, and Lucas <br />Piontkowski in early May of 2014 during the Class III cultural resources inventory for 1752 <br />acres (Conner et al. 2014). The following presents the original descriptions provided by those <br />reports and the procedures and results of the present testing for each. <br />Site 5MF319, Homer Leighter Homestead <br />Site 5MF319 was originally recorded in 1975 by the Laboratory of Public Archaeology <br />CSU. It was described as a rock wall built of sandstone slabs. The resource was recorded as <br />running east to west on the embankment of an unnamed reservoir. Milled lumber was found in <br />association with the resource and was interpreted to be remnants of a possible door (south side) <br />and window (west side). The wooden elements were described as severely decayed. It is noted <br />that the area had been recently disturbed by power line road cuts. The site was field evaluated <br />as "need data" (Arthur 1975). <br />When Grand River Institute revisited the site in 2014, the location data was updated and <br />the site was re -mapped and photographed. A boundary measuring 50 by 35 meters was <br />established around the observed cultural materials. The rock alignment and one of the wood <br />piles were relocated. A rock pile (Feature 2, possible collapsed wall?) and a mano were newly <br />recorded. <br />The rock alignment (Feature 1) is characterized by stacked sandstone rocks and dirt, <br />forming four mounds that are approximately 3 to 5 feet in width. The mounds create a roughly <br />square shaped alignment. The feature was constructed along the embankment of a reservoir <br />that is depicted on the Breeze Mountain 7.5' USGS map as a permanent body of water and <br />therefore might be fed by a spring. Sagebrush has overgrown the outside walls of the rock <br />alignment; the sandstone rocks can be better seen from the inside of the feature. The possible <br />door was relocated in the south wall; it measures approximately 3 feet wide and no wooden <br />door fragments, documented in the original recording, were observed. The window and <br />associated wooden fragments were not relocated within the structure. The feature is interpreted <br />to be the remains of a historic foundation. <br />Three pieces of 7 inch wide by 1 inch thick boards are located 15 meters to the <br />northwest of the rock alignment, on the edge of Feature 2. The wooden boards are heavily <br />deteriorated. <br />