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potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, turnips, carrots and possibly other vegetables (Orahood 1989:19). <br />A spring is located up the drainage about 400 feet northwest of the shelter. It has the remains <br />of a 3-rail log fence that enclosed an azea about 16 feet wide and 30 feet long. This fence may <br />not have been constructed by Dove. <br />Evaluation <br />The shelter has been completely cleared of Reuben Dove's possessions. It has been <br />vandalized and camping has occurred in the shelter over the past 70 yeazs. The site lacks <br />integrity of association, and has no apparent depth of cultural fill. Accordingly, it is field <br />evaluated as not eligible, and no further work is recommended. <br />Site SDT1326 is a prehistoric open campsite located on the first bench above Hubbazd <br />Creek and on the south side of the Dove Gulch drainage. This bench, which has an average <br />elevation of 6430 feet, is covered by oakbrush. The boundary, which roughly measures SOm <br />in diameter, is defined by the presence of seven flakes. Six of the flakes, which aze made of <br />grey mudstone, aze found along the Hubbard Creek road and the seventh, a basalt flake, was <br />found along a two track that runs towazd a spring area neaz the mouth of Dove Gulch. Deep <br />soils are present throughout the site and most of ii is covered by brush, grasses and vegetal <br />• debris. Accordingly, the site is likely to contain buried cultural deposits. <br />Evaluation <br />Based on the fact that artifacts aze 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 NRHP. Testing is required for a final determination of eligibility. <br />Discussion <br />As expected, the survey yielded not only the Reuben Dove Shelter but also a <br />prehistoric open campsite. Although prehistoric culturally diagnostic materials were scant, <br />this study has provided an opportunity to expand the present data base concerning the Middle <br />and Late Prehistoric occupations of the West Elk Mountains in particular, and the central <br />mountains in general. No diagnostic artifacts were found at the one prehistoric camp located <br />near Hubbazd Creek. However, in a related study of the lease area on BLM lands projectile <br />points were found at two of the prehistoric sites that aze suggestive of-but not clearly <br />diagnostic of Middle and Late Archaic period occupations. At SDT868, the base of a San <br />Raphael Stemmed point was recovered, and at SDT1283 the base ofa large corner-notched <br />type. The former is dated to the Late Archaic, ca. 1500 BC to .aD 500. The large corner- <br />notched type is not specifically dated but is likely attributable to the Middle or Late Archaic <br />periods. <br />• As with the aforementioned related study, the newly recorded prehistoric site was <br />