Show an archaeological fina at lake baase excitement minneapolis sept 6 special an important archaeological logical discovery was made on the share of lake minnetonka Minne tonka tuesday by three gentlemen of this city the mound which these gentlemen explored is about feet in diameter and rises about seven feet above the sun ending land and eighteen feet above the lake toward whose edge one side of it gently elopes near by is another mound of about the same size on these mounds grow large trees which are from to years old showing that the making of antedates the present by at least that period when one side of this mound was opened yesterday some very interesting developments followed below the mound was found aann very tightly packed in almost like soft rock by aliis means and by building on a hill bierc the drainage was perfect this anden trace up their graves at nioba when this hard earth wan removed there jc found at a depth of from three to six feet the graves of the mound build eri fiill of their bones and their crockery I 1 specimens of both bones and pottery ceru secured A casual examination of the bones alios fruin the teeth and processes to M idich mussels were once attached that these men were a huge and brawny race one huge skull was obtained very different in type from the modern baull the bodies were all buried the aca s toward the mounds center he bodie nere doubled up buried for skulls were found the upper bonea of the lep the it eth are loni strong and sound and neive canatis cay atis much deeper in the modern leeth aires nf civilization hive caused to de The pottery is very interest ing loo in the side lights it throws on thia ancient and hoary civilization the mabins mai ins seem to be made on the jars uth a bowstring and they stand out in reu f ad if cast a a mould about one of the fragmentary jars is wrapped a coarsely woven cloth abich bs been in the clay befaro baking thia shows that the mound builders unlike the indians were weavers of considerable ability altogether the discovery is very important in an archaeological sense and will create great in the scientific world |