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• Evaluation <br />Despite its 1990 evaluation, the road and drainage diversion construction has <br />revealed the site's potential to yield additional significant information. It is also likely that its <br />boundary will be extended if the oakbrush cover is ever removed or burned off. Accordingly, <br />it is field re-evaluated as need data or potentially eligible for listing on the NRHP. Additional <br />testing is required for a final determination of eligibility. <br />Site SDT1282 is apparently an open campsite located on top of a mountain ridge <br />spine at an elevation of 8040 feet. The boundary, which roughly measures 85m by 65m, is <br />defined by the presence of four widely distributed surface artifacts. They are in an open, <br />grassy meadow surrounded by oakbrush, which is located at the top of a drainage that <br />accesses Tenor Creek to the west. The artifacts include a utilized flake of quartzite, two <br />other debitage pieces of quartzite, and a small white chert flake. Two of the flakes were <br />observed in the road cut. A blade of quartzite found on the south border of the site is fire- <br />crazed, suggesting a hearth feature may be neazby. Deep soils are present throughout the site <br />and most is covered by grasses. Accordingly, the site is likely to contain buried cultural <br />deposits. <br />Evaluation <br />• Based on the fact that artifacts are being exposed in disturbed ground and buried <br />cultural deposits are likely present, it is field evaluated as need data or potentially eligible for <br />listing on the NRFIP. Testing is required for a final determination of eligibility. <br />Site SDT1283 is an open campsite located on a bench just below the top of a <br />mountain ridge spine at an elevation of 7960 feet. The bench is created by a shelf of <br />sandstone that outcrops on the site. This shelf overlooks a drainage to the northeast, which <br />contains aspen and is likely to run surface water at various times of the yeaz. (A small <br />reservoir has been recently excavated in the drainage bottom.) The sandstone also creates a <br />pour-offon the east side ofthe site. The boundary, which roughly measures 65m in <br />diameter, is defined by three small clusters of artifacts and a low density distribution of seven <br />others. The artifacts are exposed mainly at the edges of the sandstone where soils deepen to <br />20-30cm. The three clusters include tools and fire-cracked rock indicating the presence of <br />hearth features. One of these clusters, a suspected hearth feature on the west-central edge of <br />the site is exposed by a small wash. It includes fire-cracked rock (FCR), a large flake <br />butchering tool and a small cobble hammerstone. Significantly, the soils deepen in the <br />meadow south ofthere and may contain other buried features. The north-most cluster of <br />artifacts and FCR had an associated large corner-notched projectile point base (attributable to <br />the Middle/Late Archaic period) that was collected. A group of four flake knife/scraper tools <br />in the southeast quadrant of the site suggests that butchering activity took place there. <br />Three manos were found (two neaz suspected hearth locations) but no metates, which may <br />• indicate the manos were being used for hide processing. <br />6 <br />