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PREVIOUS INVF~TIGATIONS <br />II~IFZdI'ORY SURVEY <br />u <br />Site SRT139 (Temporary No. SII-1) was originally identified and recorded <br />on September 25 and 27, 1979, by Western Cultural Resource P4anagement, <br />Inc. (WCR4) during the purse of a cultural resource inventory of the <br />Seneca II Coal Ie:ase, Routt County, Colorado. The legal description of <br />the site is the NE; of Section 11, Township 5 North, Range 87 West <br />(Plilner, Colorado 7.5' U.S.G.S. topographic quadrangle). The site is <br />situated at an elevation of 7280' (2219 m) above mean sea level and has <br />an interpreted area extent of 247,500 square meters (550 m x 450 m). <br />Although this site covers an extensive amount of land surface, arti- <br />factual material= are sparsely scattered and occur in disparate ~ncen- <br />trations (see Hand, 1980, P4ap 2) . These occurrences are, rare often <br />than not, the result of surface disturbance by mxlern activities in the • <br />area (Hand, 1980, p. 8) . <br />The survey persornel noted that artifacts present on the ground surface <br />included "a]most the entire reduction sequence used in lithic manufac- <br />ture. Primary flakes, se~ndary flakes, interior flakes, bifare reduction <br />flakes, pressure flakes, and unifacially utilized flakes were observed" <br />(FIlzeeler, 1980, p. 25). Collected artifacts included two scrapers and <br />a resharperied projectile point that subse•~ently has been identified as <br />Scottsbluff II. The recovery of the latter diagnostic artifact allaaed <br />the investigators to interpret the site as a local manifestation of the <br />Cody Complex. This interpretation is significant since artifacts of <br />this cultural ampler--assigned an approximate date of 9000 B.C. on the <br />Plains (Prison, 1978)--have not been recovered from a site ~ntext in <br />north-central Colorado (Wheeler, 1980, p. 25). This point was located <br />in a backdirt pile associated with fence construction, su34esting a <br />possible subsurface origin. It also exhibited evidence of thermal • <br />16 <br />