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pockets in the bedrock. Vegetation on-site includes grasses, sparse sagebrush and sparse pinyon <br />trees. The original documentation places the site on a blown out sand dune with bedrock exposed <br />over much of the site area. This site was recommended not eligible for inclusion on the NRHP. <br />Artifacts were found primarily in the sandy areas and in one large collector's pile during <br />MAC's revisit. Twenty-four lithic flakes and one metate fragment were found lightly scattered <br />across the site. Materials were mostly white and semi-translucent white chert with small quantities <br />of pink and gray quartzite also present. The collector's pile consisted of an additional 30+ flakes <br />and one mid-stage biface made of brown chert. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. Site 5RT385 does not retain integrity. <br />Although some aeolian sands of considerable depth are present at the site, the deposition is <br />discontinuous and interspersed with large expanses of outcropping sandstone bedrock. In addition, <br />the site has been disturbed by artifact collection. This site was previously recommended as not <br />eligible for NRHP inclusion. MAC found nothing during this revisit to contradict that original <br />assessment. No further work is recommended. <br />5RT465 <br />Site Description. Site 5RT465 was originally recorded on 9/7/1985 by Grand River Institute <br />as part of a transmission line project. In the original documentation, it was described as a <br />multicomponent site. The prehistoric component included two manos, one flake and fragments of <br />large mammal bones. The historic component consisted of one complete bottle and five fragments <br />of dishes and crockery. The artifacts were located on a small north-sloping hill that had been <br />disturbed by recent cultivation. All surface exposed cultural material was collected as part of this <br />inventory. Site 5RT465 was'recommended not eligible for NRHP inclusion. <br />Site 5RT465 was revisited by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., on 9/8/2008 and <br />5/13/2009 as part of this project. The site lies in a narrow valley about four miles south of the <br />Yampa River. Hillberry Mountain and the Williams Fork Mountains make up the western valley <br />wall while a long, high north/south-trending, uplifted ridgeline is visible to the east. The site is on <br />the west side of County Road 27 which travels north/south along the valley floor. The site is <br />situated at the base of the eastern slope of a long, low east-west trending ridge. A dirt road curves <br />around the eastern edge of the ridge. The site is located just east of the road curve. During the <br />revisit, a few artifacts were found on a terrace north of Scotchmans Gulch closer to the road within <br />the area encompassed by the original site boundary. However, the majority of the cultural materials <br />were found in the cutbanks of Scotchmans Gulch and appear to be washing down the drainage not <br />eroding out of the banks. Scotchmans Gulch is a northeast-flowing tributary of Grassy Creek which <br />is located about one mile to the northeast. High, overhead transmission lines pass overhead just <br />northeast of the site boundary. Deposition is alluvial. Vegetation is primarily grasses. Just one <br />flake and two fragments of solarized glass were found on the slope above the drainage during the <br />revisit. A light scattering of historic and modern trash was discovered in the drainage located <br />approximately 25 in south of the original site location. The site boundary was extended <br />approximately 35 m to the south making the new site boundary approximately 62 m N/S x 40 m <br />E/W. The refuse, primarily glass fragments (clear, green, purple) appears to be washing down the <br />drainage and, therefore, retains no integrity. A maker's mark on the base of one green bottle base <br />fragment ("ABCM CO" embossed in a semi-circle with a 5 in the middle) was identified as being <br />23