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On an interesting side note, I also have encountered casket pet burials. Specifically at an early 20th century Montana homestead. No marker, however. It was a small (10-20lb) dog in rectangular cedarwood casket about 35 cmbd (within a depression).

Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

With fieldstones?
Did you know they were dogs?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Doyle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: University archaeologists start Tregaron elephant dig


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
Sent: Mon 4/11/2011 9:01 AM
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Subject: Re: University archaeologists start Tregaron elephant dig



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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From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 12:30 PM
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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