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information on the financial and social status, or the family and living conditions of the Butler <br />brothers at the turn of the century. This site was originally recommended to be not eligible for <br />inclusion on the National Register and MAC concurs with this recommendation. No further <br />work is recommended. The proposed seismic line 9901 crosses through the approximate center <br />of the site approximately 30 feet north of the concrete house foundation. Given previous and <br />current eligibility recommendations, the site was not avoided by the current project. <br />SRT 160: This site is a sparse lithic scatter located on the southeast facing slope of an easdwest- <br />trending ridge just below its crest. It overlooks asteep-sided tributary of Fish Creek to the east. <br />A small seasonal drainage bounds the site on the south which flows southeasterly down a steep <br />slope to its confluence with the tributary of Fish Creek. A barbed wire fence crosses northwest to <br />southeast along the edge of the ridge immediately west of the site. A old unmarked core hole is <br />located on the ridge top approximately 80 feet northwest of the site and an old road grade to the <br />core hole is still visible on the ridge slope north of the site. <br />The soil is a thin light brown sand on sandstone bedrock. There aze several areas on the <br />east and southeast face where there are sandstone bedrock outcrops. The soil over most of the <br />top of the ridge has deflated down to a pavement of sandstone gravels and cobbles with only a <br />thin mantle of eroded aeolian deposits along the fence line to the west of the site. On the gentle <br />slope in the southwestern portion of the site is a small bench where some aeolian sand shadow <br />deposits have accumulated. These deposits are fairly shallow and have been severely eroded and <br />disturbed by rodent activity. <br />When the site was originally recorded in 1979, several tools and fire-cracked stones were <br />noted, although the lithic assemblage was very sparse. Other artifacts noted on the site included <br />a biface tip, a scraper fragment, four utilized flakes, and two cores. A Late Prehistoric projectile <br />point was collected from the site. During the current investigation, the site was found to be <br />heavily deteriorated and to consist of a very sparse scatter of lithic debitage and FCR. The <br />debitage consists of seven flakes and one red chert core fragment. Four of the flakes are tertiary <br />and three are secondary. The lithic debitage was made from white chert and chalcedony. A few <br />pieces of burned and oxidized sandstone were found but no associated stains were observed. <br />None of the tools observed during the original recordation were noted. Most of the flakes were <br />located on the edge of the ridge at the north end of the site with a. few observed in the drainage <br />bottom at the south end of the site. <br />The site was originally recommended to be eligible for inclusion on the National Register <br />but a justification for that assessment was not given. Presently, the site retains no integrity and <br />appears to be a surface phenomenon. The deposits on the site are thin and highly disturbed. <br />None of the previously observed toots could be relocated and there are no intact features to <br />provide chronological control. Criven the lack of integrity, the sparse artifact content, and the <br />lack of potential to contain additional cultural remains, the site is evaluated here to be not eligible <br />for inclusion on the National Register. It has no further information potential and no further <br />work is recommended. <br />8 <br />