Bell Coulee Shelter

	Bell Coulee Shelter
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Mindoro, Wisconsin
MPS	Wisconsin Indian Rock Art Sites MPS
NRHP reference No.	97000782[1]
Added to NRHP	July 9, 1997

Bell Coulee Shelter is a prehistoric rock shelter for an 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

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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.

External links

Bell Coulee Shelter, photo in Capture Wisconsin photography contest
Article about Bell Coulee Shelter and Samuels' Cave, National Speleological Society, Inc. March 2005

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[1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[mps-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.