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• <br />Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. performed a <br />cultural resource inventory of the Seneca II Coal Lease, Routt <br />County, Colorado (Wheeler 1980). This inventory resulted in <br />the discovery and recording of two archaeological sites which <br />required further investigation through test excavation in <br />order to evaluate site significance. <br />SRT139 was recorded as an open lithic scatter about one-quarter <br />section in extent, and is located primarily in the NE4 of Section <br />11, Township 5N, Range 87W. <br />Based on surface evidence, it was inferred that the site <br />• ~ was a habitation site with a strong possibility of containing <br />a buried component with a Cody Complex affiliation. If the <br />inference was supported, the significance of SRT139 would be <br />evident. <br />5RT142 was recorded as an open camp/lithic scatter located <br />in SEA of Section 12, Township SN, Range 87W. Though surface <br />artifacts were sparse, the majority of artifacts were apparently <br />eroding out of the arroyo. Based upon the .presence of a mano, <br />knife, biface, secondary flakes, utilized flakes and biface <br />reduction flakes, the possibility existed that 5RT142 was <br />a buried campsite of unknown cultural/temporal affiliation which <br />required test excavations to determine significance. <br />In order to further evaluate these sites, multimethod <br />• testing programs were employed. The results of the programs <br />and final site evaluations are presented in this report. <br />L <br />