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Post by qp on Sept 6, 2004 21:05:55 GMT -5
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Post by PG on Sept 22, 2004 19:43:56 GMT -5
Indian Mound possible, but looks like large tree overturned - long time ago - and left root dirt deposit.
Pierre
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Post by qp on Sept 24, 2004 19:36:53 GMT -5
We thought of that too Pierre, however the dirt in this mound was like sand. Although packed somewhat from we guessed people walking over it. Not that it couldn't be an old tree. We just found the whole thing very interesting one afternoon. Maybe troutlane will comment on it some , as he was the one that pointed it out that fine August day.
qp
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Post by PG on Sept 30, 2004 17:44:38 GMT -5
Could be Indian mound. Love to see it - not that I could tell you anything. There were lot of mounds where I grew up, and the only thing I could really say about them is - there are usually more than one at a site - otherwise they don't seem to stand out particularly.
Ojibwe grave sites usually sink in - leaving a depression - so it's likely not that. Mound culture has been gone from this area for hundreds of years and seem to have had numerous mounds in any site I'm aware of, and it looks too small for the remains of a groundhouse.
Pierre
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Post by PG on Sept 30, 2004 17:46:37 GMT -5
Looked at your photos again and I'm not sure I can really get a feel for the thing from a photo. How large around is it. What is the shape?
Pierre
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Post by qp on Sept 30, 2004 18:32:46 GMT -5
The mound was about 2 1/2 feet tall, about 20 feet long and I'm guessing about 6 feet wide at the bottom.
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Post by intrepidcamper on Oct 4, 2004 22:01:43 GMT -5
There are Indian Mounds on/near Lake Vermilion; the best documented being one on the channel of the Pike River entering the lake near Tower, MN. MN Historical Society has a manuscript on it and also another excavation at Greenwood Bay. From what I've read, they don't know what the Mounds were actually for. The one on Vermilion on Pike River is 4-5 feet high and round shaped, flat on top and about 50-60 feet across. There could be another one at the Trout Lake river into Vermilion also. The Grand Mound and others have been found to be where rivers enter lakes. We have also found on occasion around Vermilion dug-outs along the shore which were the floor of some trapper's cabin, and the perimeter was higher, dirt wall, and then apparently some log wall on that, then the roof. They usually show as a three sided more or less square depression with low dirt banks and usually facing south and up against a ridge or sand hill for protection from the weather.
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