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Wayne Sowards <br />7/16/81 ' <br />page 4 <br />tions provided on the sites were not the same. During our <br />visit we were given the report records to examine (we were not <br />able to visit the sites due to impassable roads and the site <br />form for 5MF290 is not on file with the State Archeologist's <br />Office and thus was not available for our review). Based on <br />the site form for 5MF9.79 (completed by Archeological Services) <br />and the report information for 5t•1F290 (completed by David <br />6reternit:~), it was our opinion that the sites were indeed the <br />same. Both sites had the same pictorial r•einains, they are in <br />similar topographic settings (a small sandstone overhang), and <br />both are located on the same topographic feat;rre only one- <br />quarter mile apart. Subsequent to our visit, Utah International <br />personnel returned to walk ttre ridges of the area to look for <br />two separate sites. Tfiey established that the two sites were <br />indeed the same, and they are located at the point on the map <br />designated as 5MF944 (information relayed to us via phone on <br />7/7/81). <br />6, The area erroneously designated 5MF950 on the Fig.l topographic <br />map in the original report was revisited. At this location was <br />found a hole in the ground which appears to be have been <br />a one-man coal mining operation or a coal prospect pit. <br />Examination of this area showed an excavated depression <br />20 ft NS x 40 ft EW x 4-12 ft deep. In addition to the hole, <br />one broken 4" x 4" sawed piece of timber was observed. There <br />were nu other artifacts found, and the area appears to have <br />no significance. It is our opinion that tare area is not a <br />prehistoric or historic site, and it therefore was not formally <br />recorded. <br />7, The location of site 5MF348 was incorrect on the map following <br />the site form in the text (pg. 132). This has been corrected <br />and a new page for the text is attached. <br />8, One new site, outside the original survey area, was recorded <br />during the revisit. This site, 5t4F1399, was initially visited <br />by Caraveo, Greer, and Loscheider of Archeological Services <br />in 1930 during Caraveo's Utah International survey. It was <br />not recorded at that time because it was outside the survey <br />area. <br />The site lies on a hillside just north of a recently constructed <br />earthern dam. The site contains two sandstone slab foundations <br />at the northern area and one at the southern end. The northern- <br />most foundation is dry-laid with yellow sandstone slabs (3-4 <br />in. thick, 12-16 in. across). The foundation is 8 ft NS x 16 <br />ft EW with walls approximately 2 ft thick. The west side of <br />the foundation is n.ow partially covered by new road blading, and <br />there has been some silting on the outside. The height of the <br />walls is indeterminable, but they were probably 2 to 2-1 /2 ft <br />• hiyh and covered with a wooden superstructure. No artifacts <br />~ were found in association with this foundation. <br />,r•. <br />~, rJ~~ <br />