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Bell Coulee Shelter

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Bell Coulee Shelter
Nearest cityMindoro, Wisconsin
MPSWisconsin 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]

References

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  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.
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