menotomymaps
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I’ve fished this stream for over 30 years, and just recently this came uncovered.
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Midden in Massachusetts.
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I'd be looking all over that area and along that stream!!......................Good luck and nice find!!!.........................GTP
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Oh my gosh. If I found that while fishing I would forget my rod. Very cool.
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Monty
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Can you say dirt fishing??
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Regarding the rod jokes, let me quote Rodney Dangerfield: “I got a million of ‘em”
This is a narrow ravine and in the mid 1800s there were some factories on this section.
As usual, I’d guess people have come to this place for thousands of years. Today the only remains of the factories are rock piles and the remains of dams which make great trout holes.
All of the sudden this shell heap appeared a few years ago. The water doesn’t normally go that high but in a big storm, it can.
I don’t think anyone else who goes by it gives it any notice.
This is a narrow ravine and in the mid 1800s there were some factories on this section.
As usual, I’d guess people have come to this place for thousands of years. Today the only remains of the factories are rock piles and the remains of dams which make great trout holes.
All of the sudden this shell heap appeared a few years ago. The water doesn’t normally go that high but in a big storm, it can.
I don’t think anyone else who goes by it gives it any notice.
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In researching shell middens, I’ve found that the freshwater sites are pretty rare in Massachusetts. Here’s a description of one in Concord, MA, about 25 miles inland:
“The most unique archaeological feature
of the Clamshell Bluff site was the large mound
of freshwater mussel shells on the west bank of
the Sudbury River, the only freshwater shell
midden ever reported in Massachusetts (Johnson
and Mahlstedt 1984:60).”
Page 29 here: http://library.bridgew.edu/exhibits/BMAS/pdf/MAS-v56n02.pdf
Maybe I’ve found something unique??
“The most unique archaeological feature
of the Clamshell Bluff site was the large mound
of freshwater mussel shells on the west bank of
the Sudbury River, the only freshwater shell
midden ever reported in Massachusetts (Johnson
and Mahlstedt 1984:60).”
Page 29 here: http://library.bridgew.edu/exhibits/BMAS/pdf/MAS-v56n02.pdf
Maybe I’ve found something unique??
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Get permission to dig the crap out of that midden and area. check what fell out already!!
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