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Appendix 7:
Archeological Sites with Radiocarbon Dates, Rock Art, Arrow Points, or Sherds Post-Dating A.D. 1200

Site No.  Site Name(s) Radiocarbon Dates/ Features Rock Art Perdiz Toyah Harrell Garza Fresno Infierno Misc. Arrow points Other Diagnostic(s)  Comments
41CX5 Dunlap 670B.P. +/- 80, 630+/-90, 540+/-100; ash pit; slab lined basin

X dart points


41CX8 Sotol 400B.P.+/-60, 370 +/-60
x x x x
Sherd


41CX121
410B.P. +/-60




41CX125
BRM; 520B.P. +/-  69




41CX126
Hearth; 620B.P. +/-  60




41CX131
290+/-60, 290B.P. +/-50, 170B.P. +/-50




41CX136
400B.P. +/-60




41CX162 Sotol Site 489B.P. +/-70, hearth




41CX209

metal arrow point


41CX216
520B.P. +/-60, 730B.P. +/-60, 520B.P. +/-50; BRM

x


41CX217
660B.P. +/-60, BRM

dart points


41CX273 Howard's Well


1872 Battle of Kiowa against military wagons


41CX774 Howard's Stage Depot  Standing walls


Dates to 1870s
41CX781

x Dorso Scraper


41CX825
Tipi ring




41ED10
4 BRM

Sherds


41ED54
Lithic scatter; shelter

1 misc. sherd; dart points


41ED145
Lithic scatter

Sabinal


41KY16
Lithic scatter

daub, bottle possible Seminole Maroon camp


41KY17
Lithics


possible Seminole Maroon camp


41KY18


possible Seminole Maroon farm


41KY19
Cemetery


Seminole Scout Cemetery, 1872-present


41KY68
Historic house foundation, chimney

glass, chert Seminole House site


41KY69
Ditch


Probable Seminole ditch


41KY72

lithics, mussel shell Probable Seminole site


41KY73
Lithic scatter x
x
dart points


41KY74
Lithic scatter x
dart points


41KY133 Brooks Cemetery


1880-1930 Cemetery


Coahuila El Caido
Plains like rock art

?? South Kickapoo Springs


1873 battle between 4th Cavalry and Comanche/ Kickapoo


NL92 Cuevade la Zona de Derrumbres Shelter
x x
x Starr, Soto, Talco, 3 misc.


NL103 La Calsada Shelter
x
x Misc.; Starr
41TE9 Meyers Spring
horses, weapons, horned headress figures



41TE10
Pictograph one figure, may be horse



41TE61
740B.P. +/-90, 640B.P. +/- 90; 490B.P. +/-60, 450 +/-90, 390 +/-60, 360+/-80, 300 +/-60; hearth




41TE97
Shelter

1 Liver-more


41TE119
Shelter & ring midden

Pottery


41TE138
8-10 stone rings

x


41TE147
1 stone ring

dart points


41TE307 Wroe Ranch 630B.P. +/-110, 570B.P. +/-70


Burial


41TE165
1 limestone ring

x


41TE320
2 BRM

?



41TE330 Jackson's site #59
Plains petroglyphs (tipis, travel signs, arrows, bison, humans, horse tracks; possible guns)



41TE374
3 BRM, hearths
x
dart points


41TE530
BRM

1 Bonham dart points


41TE540

1 Sabinal dart points


41TE549
BRM

1 Bonham dart points


41TE550
BRM

1 Sabinal dart points


41TE581
Stone ring




























41VV7 Castle Canyon, Painted Cave Rockshetlers w/ midden Pictographs (horses, mission, riders) x x
x


mission, riders


41VV8
open midden, 2 caves
x



41VV9
midden

sherd


41VV11 Javalina Bluff BRM, open scatter
x
Bonham 12 sherds (Leon Plain)





41VV18 Jackson site 99
Possible historic Indian pictograph 






41VV21
BRM
x
x



41VV31
Shelter, talus
x



41VV34
open scatter
x



41VV44
BRM
x



41VV46
BRM, open scatter
x



41VV54
Rockshelter
x
dart points


41VV72 Seminole Waterhole
Bow & arrow; Red Monochrome figures; feather headresses



41VV77 Vaquero shelter; Jackson's site 89 overhang Historic Rock Art (site form calls it Apache) w/ mission & 3 crosses


Jackson site 89




41VV78 & 573 Painted Canyon BRM, overhang People with bows & arrows in Red Monochrome style

& 573




41VV82 Coontail Spin Shelter; 600B.P. +/-190

Sherds


41VV87 Perry Calk 690B.P. +/-50, 590B.P. +/-60; shelter
x
X Cliffton dart points


points


41VV99 Arenosa A.D. 619-673, shelter Stratum 2A
x x x
x Cliffton





41VV107
Shelter with midden
x



41VV109 Javalina Cave Shelter
x



41VV113 Shumla Cave Shelter
x



41VV142
rockshelter
x



41VV169 Live Oak Hole
Man on horse, Man w/ hair, bison [Turpin dates rock art to 1700-1775]

see VV827, 828, 844





41VV180/ 205 Rattlesnake Canyon/Miss-ionary Shelter canyon wall Mission like figures, one w/ arrow piercing him, crosses, horse



horse


41VV187 Parida Cave
x



41VV188 Devil's Mouth
x x
Sherds (thin sections done)



thin sections done








41VV189 Damp Cave Shelter
x



41VV191 Centipede Cave A.D. 1043-1270
x x
Bonham, Cliffton dart points





41VV202 `
Bison pictograph






41VV211
Pictographs, no description, but site form says "historic Indian" 



Indian"


41VV215 Mosquito Cave
x X



41VV216 Zopilote Cave
X
Livermore


41VV226 Caballo shelter
Horse pictograph; galloping; has bridle & reins, no saddle



no saddle


41VV233 Lewis Canyon
Red Monochrome
Guerrero
"Discrete Geometric glyphs" are considered Late Prehistoric per Turpin & Bass (1999:4)


41VV257 Hodge 710B.P. +/-80







(1999:4)
41VV259 Langtry Sotol Pit
x



41VV260 Cammack Sotol 625B.P. +/-185; BRM; burial
x x
Cliffton, Soto, misc.
Radiocarbon assay was taken from burial





41VV264 Devil's Rockshelter
x



41VV301 Nopal Terrace
x



41VV327 Hussie Miers 
Indian on horse; Spanish figure w/ musket


Site




41VV328 Hussie Miers Ranch
Several horses w/ mounted figures w/ Plains style headgear


Ranch

gear


41VV339
Horseshoes, horsemen impaled by speers; horses have Spanish ring bits






41VV343 Caballero Shelter
Church & horse carrying man w/ hat

across from 41VV869, and near 41VV485


41VV347
BRM
x



41VV364
3 cairns; above Black cave; one cairn excavated
x
x Scallorn Dart points








41VV365 Black Cave Camp Beveled end scrapers, beveled knives, prismatic blades


Sherds near 41VV446


41VV366
One cairn overlooking Presa Canyon


Almagre


41VV367
Shelter, carins
x



41VV369
Stone ring above Presa Canyon




41VV374
Two cairns




41VV398
Cairn, stone ring, beveled end scraper

Infierno


41VV401
Rock wall, dry-laid




41VV402
Lithic scatter 
x
Dart points


41VV403
rock circle & 5 cairns


likely same site as 41VV404


41VV404
1 stone ring




41VV405

Gunflint of native origin


41VV407
Stone rings & cairns

Langtry, Frio


41VV409
Two stone rings
x



41VV411
Stone ring, 2-3 course high




41VV412
Stone hearths/stone alignments?




41VV413
Stone hearths/stone alignments?




41VV422 Techo Bajo 740B.P. +/-60

Dart points


41VV423
x



41VV424 Word's #1; Baker's Crossing
x
Sherds of clay pipe; two other sherds also Camp Hudson established near here in 1857; pipe sherds are of native manufacture


41VV428
Stone circle




41VV433
x



41VV444 San Felipe Springs
x
Cliffton Sherds; Dorso End scrapers Location of Camp San Felipe 1857-1861; Camp del rio 1876-1896





41VV446 Infierno Camp 140+ features; 124 wickiup rings; 7 tipi rings; blade reduction, little burned rock
x
x
Sherds


41VV448
x



41VV449
Stone Ring




41VV450
Cairns, two rings

Scallorn


41VV485 Dolan Springs
Pictograph w/ bison and man w/ musket
Metal arrow point
Near 41VV343


41VV537
x



41VV544 Old Saloon Ruins Artifact scatter with prehistoric & historic materials, including brass trigger guard, beveled end scrapers

x
in Seminole Canyon








41VV570 Malone Ranch
Mission petrograph



41VV597
Possible rings & cairns, BRM
x
thumb-nail scrapers


41VV600
Eight cairns, one ring




41VV607
Four rings




41VV613 ` Four possible rings, BRM

dart points
41VV620 Seminole Sink Radiocarbon from cremation 390B.P. +/- 80; other radiocarbon - 470 +/-150; cremation, burials




41VV627
BRM, one ring, one possible cairn




41VV632
two rings; 2 stone alignments

dart points


41VV635
Six rings
x x
x



41VV649
Six rings

x



41VV655
Two rings




41VV661
AD 1290 (660+50 b.p.)
x X
One sherd


41VV662 Brite Terrace Hearths, 660+/-50 B.P. 
x
Sherds


41VV665
x



41VV666 Bailando Shelter
Rock art with "early Plains" style; also has Red Monochrome figures



41VV736 Buck King Cave
x x x

In Satan's Canyon


41VV773
One ring




41VV778
Two rings




41VV792
One cairn




41VV795 Dweese's Crossing or Vega Old river crossing of Rio Grande; wagon ruts




41VV821
One ring, BRM

dart points


41VV827
2 stone circles, BRM 

Ensor


41VV828 Live Oak Creek BRM, 4 tipi rings

Guerrero, Sabinal 1 sherd, bifaces, Dorso end scraper; dart points near Hussie Miers site,  near waterhole


41VV841
 5 burned rock middens; 5 BRM; 2 hearths

x possible gun flint, dart points in Seminole Canyon, also has Archaic material


41VV844 Robertson Camp Stone features, disturbed

x dart points
41VV869 Dolan Creek BRM

misc. arrow points Sherd, 4 arrow points, 13 dorso end scrapers, dart points


41VV880 Dolan Creek Stone ring (possible tipi ring with central hearth or US Calvary tent remains), BRM  Caballero pictograph site
Military buttons & other historic materials, possible gunflint Turpin & Davis (1993: 12) assign this to the 1857 battle at Snake Springs, base of Yellow Bluff


41VV910
Historic pictograph Site form does not describe the pictograph



41VV915
Shelter Pecos River rock art x
dart points


41VV930 Skyline Shelter Shelter
x
x dart points


41VV1043
x



41VV1088 Shield Shelter
Pictograph: circle with ca. 30 crescents & wavy lines, Turpin and Davis (1993:11) believe this a Plains Indian type of symbol of horseshoes within a corral or moons enclosed in the sun, ca. 1700-1885



41VV1124
One cairn




41VV1131
One ring; hearth




41VV1160
One cairn




41VV1165
BRM
x

dart points


41VV1207
x



41VV1217
x

dart points


41VV1274
3 stone circles, BRM


dart points near Pecos high bridge


41VV1277
3 long piles of rock curving out from canyon rim, end scrapers




41VV1288
2 (possibly 3) stone rings on bed rock, 3 m. diameter

x


41VV1312 ` 3 BRM
x
x


41VV1366
1 Dorso end scraper, BRM, hearth




41VV1406
Shelter
x



41VV1428 Lt. Bullis trail used in 1875 w/ Seminole




41VV1457
Shelter
x



41VV1651
Possible army camp near Bullis Trail, 2 linear rock features (possible tent outlines), 2 mortar holes

lithics, mussel fragments, historic ceramics, ca. 1875


41VV1697
Hearths
x
dart points


41VV1723
Tipi & Wickiup rings (several hundred); mortar holes; hearths

Sherds


41VV1724
Tipi & Wickiup rings (several hundred); mortar holes; hearths




41VV1778
Alternatively beveled knife, BRM

dart points


41VV1781
x (?) 
dart points


41VV1794
Shelter Rock art (no style)
x


41VV1800
Cairn 3 m long & 1 m wide




41VV1812
Rock alignment




41VV1818
4 cairns


Sabinal, Guerrero (?) Dart points, blades, mussel shell, awls, thumbnail scrapers near 41VV1800


41VV1860
Possible rock circle




41VV1875
Possible wickiup, 3 hearths




41VV1876
Possible rock alignment




41VV1881
2 possible wickiups, 5 hearths




41VV1884
Possible wickiup




41VV1889
Wickiups, 25 hearths




x = present


BRM = burned rock midden




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