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

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
Dfficial 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 chanyed. If the original form is incomplete
or otherwise inadequate please submit a new set of site forms.
1. State No. SRT867 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, 16 August
1992
Travis, Lauri
1994 Peabody Coal Company's Yoast Mine Expansion Area, Class III Cultural
Resource Inventory, Routt County, Colorado. Edited by Carl Sp~th.
Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. Eagle, Colorado. On file,
Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake Resource Area, Craig,
Colorado.
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5. Changes or additions to the previous site/property description(s)
This site was recorded as a sparse open lithic scatter consisting of 30 pieces
of debitage and a mono (Travis 1994). Current investigations confirm the sparse
nature of the artifact scatter. The mono was observed but no temporally diagnostic
materials were observed during current investigations. The site is located
primarily on a gentle slope above a flat floodplain on the north and below a
prepared field on the south (Figure 4). The mono is in the agricultural field and
is relatively isolated from the main site area. It may be out of context. The
majority of the artifacts are located slightly upslope and east of the datum or
between the datum and Shovel Probe ~3 (see figure 4). Based on the projectile •
point/knife fragment collected in 1992, the site may date to the Late Prehistoric
Period.
The projectile point/knife is a tan course-grained chert with side notches and
a basal notch. The flaking is relatively uniform horizontal parallel and the base
is lightly ground through the side notches. It resembles Parson Tri-notched points
(IMACS 1990) which are generally dated to between 2000 and 1500 BP. (Prison 1991).