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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 291836" data-attributes="member: 389">I hate to break it to you, but robbing graves is illegal...like seriously illegal. And if I knew I had burial mounds on my land, I'd keep it as secret as could be.&nbsp; You wouldn't want the State Hysterical Society getting wind of them.&nbsp; They will put all kinds of super secret restrictions on the place.I know of several teepee circles on private land and that's what I tell those landowners as well.&nbsp; Quite a few years ago, a gravel company wanted to develop a relatively useless piece of our pasture.&nbsp; But in their test cores they found little fragments of bone (pretty damn sure they were animal bones) and rock cairns, that the archeologist thought could be of Native American origin.&nbsp; Stupid part of it all was that this was a few acres of the pasture that had at one time been broken up for crop land, so the cairns were just rock piles on the edge of the field left there by my step-grandfather.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yep, you guessed it...no gravel pit for the parents.&nbsp; They would have had to open-ended a check to a private archeologist to prove that these weren't of Native American origin to get the gravel pit approved, so they got screwed. Way too expensive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 291836, member: 389"] I hate to break it to you, but robbing graves is illegal...like seriously illegal. And if I knew I had burial mounds on my land, I'd keep it as secret as could be. You wouldn't want the State Hysterical Society getting wind of them. They will put all kinds of super secret restrictions on the place. I know of several teepee circles on private land and that's what I tell those landowners as well. Quite a few years ago, a gravel company wanted to develop a relatively useless piece of our pasture. But in their test cores they found little fragments of bone (pretty damn sure they were animal bones) and rock cairns, that the archeologist thought could be of Native American origin. Stupid part of it all was that this was a few acres of the pasture that had at one time been broken up for crop land, so the cairns were just rock piles on the edge of the field left there by my step-grandfather. Yep, you guessed it...no gravel pit for the parents. They would have had to open-ended a check to a private archeologist to prove that these weren't of Native American origin to get the gravel pit approved, so they got screwed. Way too expensive. [/QUOTE]

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