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INVENTORY RESULTS <br />This cultural resource inventory produced five: sites • <br />and four isolated artifacts. Four of the sites are abor- <br />iginal and one is historic. Three of the isolated artifacts <br />are aboriginal and one is historic. Descriptions of the <br />sites follow. <br />5RT139 <br />This is very large, relatively sparse campsite/ Lithic <br />scatter (see Map 6). The site Lies below a saddle to the <br />southeast and is approximately a quarter section in extent. <br />The northeast portion is a southwest-facing hillside with a <br />fairly gentle slope. The slope runs down to an arroyo, which <br />deepens and broadens to the. northwest. A small hilltop rises <br />to the southeast on which Lies artifactual material. This <br />hilltop slopes to the northeast until the arroyo is reached. <br />Vegetation is a mixed big sage, snowberry, scrub oak <br />and mountain mahogony community with more dense scrub occur- • <br />ring in the drainage bottom where it deepens and also on the <br />southwest-facing slope. <br />The site has been impacted by road and fence construc- <br />tion, though this has directly affected a small percentage <br />of the total site. This impact has had one fortunate <br />result; observed artifactual material is concentrated in <br />those impacted areas, and the site might not have been dis- <br />covered without this impact. Material is extremely sparse <br />in unimpacted areas. However, one flake was discovered 14 <br />centimeters below the present surface level in a road cut <br />indicating there is subsurface material. This flake was <br />photographed in place (see Figure 5). <br />Collected artifacts are a Scottsbluff projectile point <br />and two scrapers. The Scottsbluff projectile point was con- <br />firmed as a Scottsbluff point by Dennis Stanford*, Associate <br />• <br />* Personal communication, Dennis Stanford, October 10, 1979 <br />24 <br />