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• notched artifact. Too little of the artifact remains for clear temporal <br />affiliations to be determined. It could date to any time between the Late <br />Archaic and the Late Prehistoric Periods. <br />The site is located in a borrow pit area (see Figure 3). The pit is <br />over a meter deep on the north side. Other borrow areas are present all along <br />the road which is south of the site. This road appears to have been a haul <br />road for the existing strip mine southwest of the site area. It is wide and <br />had been constructed in a cut/fill manner such that it is relatively level. <br />The debitage that expanded the site boundary is on the side of a dirt berm. <br />During the current investigations, all of the observed aboriginal artifacts <br />were within disturbed areas. The original site boundaries extended east of <br />the disturbed area. Although no artifacts were observed in this area during <br />the current investigations, the site boundary has not been modified from the <br />original in that direction. <br />The site datum was originally placed in the middle of the main portion <br />of the borrow area. It was found lying on the surface in a scrub oak thicket. <br />As a result, it was pounded in the ground in a less exposed location (see <br />Figure 3). Site identification was positive based on the USGS plot and <br />comparison of the site map to the area. <br />Relatively recent trash is present over much of the site. During the <br />current investigations, a sheep herder was camping near the site on the other <br />side of the road. It is unclear whether the trash is the result of such <br />activities but the artifacts are consistent with recent sheep herders' camps. <br />• The entire edge of the borrow area was examined for indications of in <br />situ materials. This examination failed to locate such materials and revealed <br />a thin A horizon (2 to 5 cm thick) overlying C horizon materials. The floor <br />of the pit appears to extend into pre-Holocene materials. Based on the lack <br />of artifacts along the exposure and the depth of the cut, shovel probes were <br />not placed in the area east of the pit. Although the original site boundaries <br />extend into this area, no artifacts were observed there during the current <br />investigations. The lack of an A horizon or a thin mantle of A horizon <br />sediment is not unexpected given shovel probe results at other sites examined <br />during this project and the results of previous investigations in the area <br />(e.g. Johnson et al. 1980; Wheeler 1979, 1980). <br />Based on the general paucity of artifacts, lack of cultural deposition <br />and extreme disturbance, the site is evaluated as not significant. It is <br />recommended that the site be considered not eligible for inclusion in the NRHP <br />and no further archaeological investigations should be necessary. <br />5RT867 <br />This site was recorded as a sparse open lithic scatter consisting of 30 <br />pieces of debitage and a mono (Travis 1994). Current investigations confirm <br />the sparse nature of the artifact scatter. The mono was observed but no <br />temporally diagnostic materials were observed during current investigations. <br />The site is located primarily on a gentle slope above a flat floodplain on the <br />• north and below a prepared field on the south (Figure 4). The mono is in the <br />7 <br />