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Historic Properties Treatment Plan, Collom Mine, Colorado 16 <br />NRHP Eligibility Recommendation: In 1995, MAC recommended Site 5MF3996 as <br />potentially eligible for the NRHP under Criteria D, but it required additional data to confirm its <br />eligibility, and the Colorado OAHP officially concurred with that assessment. The August 2005 <br />inventory evaluation confirmed the need for testing, especially because of the possibility that <br />road construction had impacted the site. Subsurface testing and data recovery excavations are <br />required to determine the extent of cultural material extant at the site. <br />The site occurs within the mine permit boundary and will be impacted by the proposed <br />undertaking causing an adverse effect. The site is eligible for the NRHP under Criterion D and <br />the site should be avoided until subsurface testing evaluations and data recovery excavations are <br />completed. The scope of work is included in Section 4.2 below. An objective of the <br />excavations for this site will be to determine whether the bone and charcoal staining are cultural <br />or natural. If these are cultural, the research design will be used to investigate site structure, <br />subsistence patterns, and site activities. <br />3.3 SITE 5MF4003 <br />Site Description: Site 5MF4003 was originally recorded by Metcalf Archaeological <br />Consultants on July 19, 1995, as part of the Colowyo Coal Company 1995 lease and exploration <br />Class III inventory. The site was defined as a multicomponent locality, including a prehistoric <br />open camp and a historic homestead site. <br />The prehistoric component consisted of a long section of the Wilson Creek cutbank that <br />exhibited eroding cultural material (Figure 3.3). The eroded cultural material included more <br />than 100 white chert tertiary flakes, numerous heat - altered rock fragments, three manos, <br />one quartzite flake, three obsidian flakes, a chert endscraper, and a utilized flake. The majority <br />of the material eroded out of the western cutbank of Wilson Creek. The original site recorders <br />estimated the depth of the buried cultural deposits at approximately 0.3 m below surface. <br />47599 <br />TRC Mariah Associates Inc. <br />