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<< Other Photo Pages >> McKinstry Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The Plains

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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: McKinstry Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 19.455 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Plains Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: International Falls, MN  Nearest Village: Pelland, MN
Latitude: 48.523000N  Longitude: 93.575W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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McKinstry Mounds
McKinstry Mounds submitted by Flickr : Burial Mound near Rainy River These burial mounds have been dated from 1500 to 3500 years old. Image copyright: shroomAzoom, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mounds in Koochiching County, Minnesota.
Two mounds, the largest built over an earlier village site. Excavated in the first half of 20th C. Both had previous damage from modern looting.

Mound 1 was 8 feet high and 83 feet in diameter. Finds included pottery shards, worked animal bone and teeth,stone tools, copper bracelets, and shell beads, formed into necklaces.
Mound 2 contained 96 sets of remains, many being secondary burials.

A National Register of Historic Places site.

Note: Location is for the village, not the mound location, which lies along the Rainy River.
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McKinstry Mounds
McKinstry Mounds submitted by Flickr : Burial Mounds on Plains by Rainy River Green fields. Image copyright: shroomAzoom, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

McKinstry Mounds
McKinstry Mounds submitted by Flickr : With John Stoner, 2004 or 2005, at Kay Na Chi WahNung indigenous ancient burial mound along Rainy River in Northwestern Ontario. Citation: Gene Stoltzfus Papers, 1940-2012. HM1-101. Photographs: Retirement, 2004-2009. Box 4 Folder 8. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana. Image copyright: Mennonite Church USA Archives (Mennonite Church USA Archives), hosted on Flickr and di... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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