On the multiple names marker, what did they do, have like a plank they added
names onto at the bottom?
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I am not sure on the origin of the casket. It was milled plank and the site
was less than 2 miles from an NP rail siding so it could have come from
anywhere I imagine. This was eastern Montana so local wood sources were
sparse in the best of conditions. So I imagine it was mail order or made
from prefab materials. Maybe just a convenient storage box like you said.
As far as multiple burials, with the exclusion of the MT example, they were
all "complexes" of two or more burials, some with multiple names on one
marker, that were being used generationally by the landowners, in the same
fashion as a human interment site.
Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Did you know, was said casket homemade?
There is a cross for a pet cat that was associated for years at a site out
here; I think he had a casket... I remember him well; there's a great
story associated with him.
My own pets were wrapped in towels, or were in the most convenient cardboard
box, the dogs and cats have their collars with name tags, the chickens,
ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits, catfish (yeah, we had a pet one my son caught
and 6 hours later when he got home it was still alive; lived several years
in a huge aquarium), toads, lizards, and whatever else...are anonymous but
under bricks, stones, and old ceramic sewer pipe pieces. As an
archaeologist I have wondered what would be made of these skeletons by
future residents of my home.
Of course, I'm burying pets here, as you see. Were your pet cemeteries
(aside from the one you mentioned with the working dogs) associated with
more than one animal burial?
Thanks for sharing.
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From: "Sean Doyle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:13 AM
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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?
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From: "Sean Doyle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:02 AM
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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
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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