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construction. or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic • <br />values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose <br />components may lack individual distinction; or d) that have yielded, or tray be <br />likely to yield, information important in the prehistory or history. <br />Site Descriptions <br />This section provides a general description of sites, SDTI282, SDT1283, SDT1284, <br />and SDTI285. Cultural resources location data is provided in Appendix A. Detailed <br />information for the sites is provided in Appendix B: OAHP Site and Isolated Find Forms <br />(these appendices are restricted from public publication). <br />Site SDT868 was originally recorded by Rand Greubel of Alpine Archaeology in 1990 <br />as part of the WAPA Curecanti-Rifle Transmission Line Access Road Rehabilitation Project. <br />The site was located northwest of the existing Terror Creek Road within an area measuring <br />60m (NW-SE) by 23m (SW-NE). It is situated on aneast-sloping, oakbtvsh-covered bench <br />that overlooks Terror Creek at an average elevation of 7120 feet. A spring is situated <br />directly west of the site, and is likely the reason for its location. As described by Greubel, <br />"the site consists of a light density scatter of lithics situated on a sloping terrace above a <br />tributary stream of Terror Creek. Artifacts aze visible in azeas which have been lightly eroded • <br />by sheet wash, interspersed among groves of Gambel oak and Mountain mahogany. <br />Observed were 2 quartzite primary flakes, 1 quartzite secondary flake, 2 quartzite tertiary <br />flakes, 2 fragments of quartzite debitage, 1 chalcedony tertiary flake, and 6 chert tertiary <br />flakes, 1 quartzite side-notched projectile point, and 1 chert biface edge fragment." The site <br />was tested for evaluation by digging 4 units (40 x 40cm) to a depth of 30cm. As a result, the <br />site was field evaluated, and later officially evaluated, as not eligible for listing on the NRHP. <br />The revisit to the site for this project indicated that the site is lazger than previously <br />recorded and likely to contain buried cultural deposits. An azea measuring approximately 60 <br />by 35m located southeast of the road was also found to contain surface exposed artifacts and <br />a disturbed hearth feature. The oakbrush in that azea is cleazed along a triangulaz line and <br />appeazs to have been cut by a bulldozer for purposes of reducing runoff along the road. A <br />drainage continues to erode that line through the brush. At the apex of the triangle (the <br />southeast corner), a hearth feature represented by fire-cracked rock was found exposed and <br />associated with a stemmed point and three flakes (two ofwhich were apparently washed <br />down the drainage). The projectile point base, which was collected from neaz the hearth <br />feature, compazes well with the San Rafael Stemmed type, which has been dated in Late <br />Archaic (ca. 1500 ac to n~ 500) sites in Western Colorado (Reed and Horn 1992). A mano <br />was point-plotted about 1 Sm northeast of the feature. Two other artifacts (flakes) were <br />found along the road where it was upgraded by the 1990 construction. A mano recorded as <br />isolated fmd SDT1286 was located about 55 meters northeast of the site within the Terror <br />Creek Road, which could indicate that the boundary of ~DT868 extends to that point. <br />r~ <br />LJ <br />5 <br />