I've run across rooster burials marked with modern concrete foot stones. When I was a young lad I helped my grandfather and uncle bury a cow that had mysteriously died one summer. And just recently, came across a farmer who drugged his dead cows to a certain spot in the field near the wood line. It was eerie being around the cow carcasses in varying stages of decomposing.
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Walter
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I don't know. The farmers I interviewed never mentioned "burying" their
work horses. Some said they'd just dumped the bodies in a ravine. These
were recent enough that the body was hauled over with a tractor.
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In the cases where they went so far as to identify the markers they only had
the name, Demon, Runner, and what not. No indication of species or capacity
on the marker. I wonder why the same treatment was not afforded draught
animals in agriculturalist sites I've had the opportunity to work on?
Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Very true.
I have thought of visiting one of our local pet cemeteries; not yet made a
big enough excuse to do so. Just wondering if a working dog would have been
marked as such on his/her marker.
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The one's in Western Colorado varied between fieldstone and wooden markers.
East Texas on the other hand were invariably of stone, at least of the
examples I have seen. We did in fact know they were dogs as in all three
cases the landowners explained the burials to us.
I wanted to add that I should have said "working dogs" instead of simply
hunting dogs. The Colorado examples were located in the Piceance and were
intermixed with sheep dogs. They always fascinated me, good representations
of how much the human relied on and trusted this animal during its lifetime.
As much a colleague as a pet.
Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
With fieldstones?
Did you know they were dogs?
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Not so much pets, but hunting dogs. I have seen a great deal of marked
hunting dog burials on various rural hunting tracts in both East Texas and
Western Colorado.
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Susan Walter
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Not elephants, BUT often on rural sites I've stumbled (sometimes literally)
on what appear to be fieldstone grave markers. In my own yard, our
fieldstone markers denote pet burials. Everyone (except Mr. McCoy, who was
exhumed and moved to a now unidentified final resting place) is accounted
for from my farmhouse, built in 1890; they are in official cemeteries.
Anyone else had pet burials marked like that?
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Subject: University archaeologists start Tregaron elephant dig
> Not quite sure what to think of this; maybe a useful training exercise
> (PR?), but...
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13023965
> What archaeological information can the grave of a circus elephant reveal?
> Something about burial customs for circus elephants in 19th c. Wales?
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