Snake Rock Village is an ancient Fremont habitation site beside Ivie Creek. It is known as a (former) production center for a certain style of gray pottery. Because VSO is herself becoming in expert in the manufacture of primitive pottery made from locally harvested clay, she wanted to see it for herself. So, I took her there.
When the site was documented, in the 1960s, there was a local two-lane road nearby. But, since then, I-70 has been constructed (it was completed in 1990) nearly on top of the site. It looks to me like the freeway has so altered the flow of water over and through the area, that most of what was obvious about the site 60 years ago has been altered. We found the eponymous rock, visible (if you know where to look) to speeding motorists, a few sherds, and a broken stone knife. Not much else.
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