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• Abstract <br /> Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., conducted a class III cultural <br /> resources inventory of a block with a short, 253 ft long access road, and <br /> approximately 1.0 mile of subsidence reconnaissance for the Northfield Coal Mine <br /> in Fremont County, Colorado. The block will be used to build surface facilities for <br /> an underground coal mine. The subsidence reconnaissance occurred along a stretch <br /> of canyon wall on the south side of Chandler Creek where the likelihood of surface <br /> subsidence as a result of the underground mining is higher, putting at risk of <br /> destruction any rock shelter sites or prehistoric or historic rock art sites. An intensive <br /> survey of this zone was not undertaken. Instead, the rock walls of the canyon, as well <br /> as large, fallen boulders, were checked for evidence of use for either rock art or as <br /> occupied shelters. The acreages surveyed include 20.4 acres for the facilities block, <br /> 0.02 acres of access road, and 27.2 acres of non-intensive reconnaissance in the <br /> subsidence zone. A total of 47.62 acres, all on privately owned lands, was <br /> inventoried. As a result, three new sites and two new isolated finds were found and <br /> recorded. The sites are all historic in age and include an inscription on a rock face <br /> in the subsidence zone (SFN2220), a historic sheltered camp (SFN2221), and an old, <br /> abandoned railroad grade (SFN2217.1). They are all recommended to be not eligible <br /> for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and no further work <br /> is recommended. The isolated finds are both historic (SFN2218) and prehistoric <br /> (SFN2219) and are by definition not eligible for inclusion on the NRHP. No further <br />• work is recommended. A finding of "no historic properties affected" is <br /> recommended for the project as staked at the time of survey. <br />ii <br />