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The point was manufactured from cream-colored chert. It is similar to Desert side-notched points <br />found in the region and typically dated at less than 700 yrs B.P. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. Site 5RT1369 retains integrity. This site <br />was recommended eligible for the NRHP in 1999 and has SHPO concurrence. MAC found nothing <br />during the current revisit to contradict that eligibility assessment. If the site will be subjected to <br />physical disturbance from mine facilities, testing and/or data recovery should occur. Assessment' <br />of potential effects from subsidence will be evaluated as part of a recommended site condition <br />monitoring program for the mine. Testing or data recovery may be triggered under this program if <br />the potential for site degradation from subsidence is observed during the monitoring program. <br />5RT1370 <br />Site Description. Site 5RT1370 retains integrity. The site was originally recorded by <br />Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. on 6/10/1999. The site is a lithic scatter located on the <br />north terrace of an east-flowing intermittent tributary of Fish Creek. During the original inventory, <br />one biface, one modified flake, one groundstone slab and 31 lithic flakes were recorded. One <br />artifact concentration consisting of biface thinning flakes, pressure flakes and one burned bone was <br />also documented. Vegetation on site consists of low sagebrush and grasses. Deposition at the site <br />is alluvial and flakes were observed eroding out of the drainage bank. The site is located in an area <br />with good potential for intact, buried cultural deposits. Site 5RT1370 was recommended eligible <br />for inclusion on the NRHP and SHPO concurred. During this revisit, MAC found the site much as <br />it was when it was first recorded. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. Site 5RT 1370 retains integrity. This site <br />was recommended eligible for the NRHP in 1999. MAC found nothing during the current revisit <br />to contradict that eligibility assessment. If the site will be subjected to physical disturbance from <br />mine facilities, testing and/or data recovery should occur. Assessment of potential effects from <br />subsidence will be evaluated as part of a recommended site condition monitoring program for the <br />mine. Testing or data recovery may be triggered under this program if the potential for site <br />degradation from subsidence is observed during the monitoring program. <br />5RT2699 <br />Site Description. This newly recorded, prehistoric, lithic scatter lies in a narrow valley <br />about four miles south of the Yampa River. Hillberry Mountain and the Williams Fork Mountains <br />make up the western valley wall while a long, high north/south-trending, uplifted ridgeline is visible <br />to the east. The site is on the west side of County Road 27 which travels north/south following the <br />valley floor. It sits on a terrace that slopes gently to the south/southeast toward the west bank of an <br />unnamed, intermittent drainage that flows north out of Nofstger Zeigler Reservoir. The drainage <br />is flanked to the east and west by long, low hills and joins Scotchmans Gulch about 'h mile to the <br />north. Nofstger Zeigler Reservoir is located about one mile to the south. The site sits in a cultivated <br />field which provided excellent visibility at the time of discovery. To the north, east and south, the <br />site is surrounded by historically cultivated fields that have been revegetated with wheatgrasses. <br />Three transmission lines extending to the northwest and southeast pass just north of the site. An <br />historic habitation, site 5RT2746, is located about 40 m east of the site where the cultivated field <br />28