Bell Coulee Shelter

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Bell Coulee Shelter
Nearest city Mindoro, Wisconsin
MPS Wisconsin Indian Rock Art Sites MPS
NRHP reference No. 97000782 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 9, 1997

Bell Coulee Shelter is a prehistoric rock shelter for ancient people, located in Mindoro, Wisconsin, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.

The Bell Coulee Shelter is a rock art site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains petroglyphs, where a hard object was used to carve or incise a rock surface, and/or pictographs, paintings on the rock using natural pigments. [2]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Robert A. Birmingham (December 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Wisconsin Indian Rock Art Sites". National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2017.