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
other _
other
Official Determination (OAHP use only)
Determined Eligible
Determined Not Eligible
Need Data
Nominsated
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 anew set of site forms.
State No. 5RT871 2. Site/Property Name
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, 17 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 11 pieces
of debitage and one utilized flake (Travis 1994). Current investigations failed to
locate any artifacts, although the site datum was found and the site was positively
identified. The site is located along a slope between the floodplain and a prepared
field (Figure 6). The datum is in an area cleared of vegetation for a pasture. An
old fence line is visible west of the cleared area and a prepared field is west of
the fence line. The two-track through the site does not appear to have been a
plowed strip but rather bulldozed through the vegetation thicket.
A scale error was included on the original site map and the site is half the
reported size. No ground visibility is present away from the road in the scrub oak. •
Based on the location on the slope, examination of the erosion and cutbanks
along the two-track, and shovel probes, little to no deposition is present. Only a
thin mantle of A horizon colluvium (less than 5 cm) is present. Such a situation is
well documented in the general pT•o~ect area (see descriptions of shovel probes at
other sites during this project; Johnson et al. 1980; Wheeler 1979, 1980).