Sentences with phrase «midden mound»

Walking on the flanks of Cascade Head recently I found a Native American midden mound exposed in the roots of a fallen tree.

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Ancient productivity Thousand - year - old mounds of discarded oyster shells, called middens, that line the banks along parts of Maine's Damariscotta River attest to the productivity — and Native Americans» ancient appetite for — local oysters.

Or at least durable trash mounds, known as middens.

But a group of squatters has built adobe shacks atop an ancient trash midden, or mound, and a local landowner may be planning to build a housing development over the buried pyramids.

Our guide was Lewis, the irrepressible chocolate Lab owned by lodge co-owners Bill Weeks and Annie Ceschi; Lewis led us to a kitchen midden, a great mound of discarded shells left by the First Nations people who once lived here.

The court further rejected the claim that the contemporary practice of protecting sites of significance, such as mounds, middens and scarred trees, should be recognised as a native title right.