PERMFILE54688

• Permit No: C1994082
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: A CLASS III INVENTORY AND NRNP ASSESSMENTS OF FIVE SITES IN THE PROPOSED YOAST COAL
• Section_Exhibit Name: TAB 05 ATTACHMENT 5-3
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Colorado Cultural Resource Survey
Site or Property Reevaluation Form
Attachments: (check as many as apply)
photographs
X site sketch map
X U.S.G.S. map photocopy
X other proiectile point illustration
other
Official Determination (OAHP use only)
Determined Eligible
Determined Not Eligible
Need Data
Nominated
Listed
Contributing to N.R. Dist.
Not Contributing to N.R. Dist.
This form should be used to update information on a previously recorded site/
property. Photographs are required for all structures. A photocopy of the USGS
quad. map showing site location is required for all archaeological sites with
updated locational information. A revised site sketch map is necessary if the site
boundaries or components have greatly changed. If the original form is incomplete
or otherwise inadequate please submit a new set of site forms.
1. State No. 5RT864 2. Site/Property Name
3. Purpose of this current site visit (check as many as apply)
site is within a current project area
resurvey
update of previous site form(s)
surface collection
X testing to determine eligibility
_ excavation
____ other (specify)
describe See 5) below.
4. Previous recordings - name(s), organization(s), date(s)
L. Travis, J. Scott, S. Cochran, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc, 15 August
1992
Travis, Lauri
1994 Peabody Coal Company's Yoast Mine Expansion Area, Class III Cultural
Resource Inventory, Routt County, Colorado. Edited by Carl SpAth.
Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. Eagle, Colorado. On file,
Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake Resource Area, Craig,
Colorado.
5. Changes or additions to the previous site/property description(s)
This site was recorded as a sparse open lithic scatter consisting of 16 pieces of
debitage and a biface fragment (Travis 1994). Current investigations confirm the
sparse nature of the aboriginal artifact scatter. A newly discovered artifact
(tertiary flake) expanded the site boundary to the south and a projectile
point/knife fragment was located (Figure 3). Both of these artifacts are white
chert. The projectile point/knife is a medium to large sized corner notched
artifact. Too little of the artifact remains for clear temporal affiliations to be
determined. It could date to any time between the Late Archaic and the Late
• Prehistoric Periods.
The site is located in a borrow pit area (see Figure 3). The pit is over a
meter deep on the north side. Other borrow areas are present all along the road
which is south of the site. This road appears to have been a haul road for the
existing strip mine southwest of the site area. It is wide and had been constructed
in a cut/fill manner such that it is relatively level. The debitage that expanded