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�"f h�rc,(,�r�. 1�'. �* - . - l� S ��STATE,q�C� ��C � ��F 0 0 J � O J u ne 26, 2013 �''r c; ��.U ��Z� ,, ��So�P y �FO� �J lanet Boschwitz ��/Q Edina Realty 1000 Superior Blvd., #200 Wayzata, MN 55391 Janet: Based on our fieldwork yesterday at 1480 Green Trees Road in Orono, I am officially authenticating part of this property as a burial ground per Minnesota Statutes 307.08.This burial ground is part of a group of prehistoric burial mounds first mapped in detail on May 28, 1883 by sunreyor Theodore Lewis. Lewis mapped 20 mounds extending from the west edge of Browns Bay to about 1100 feet west,just north of Bracketts Point. Prior to the Lewis visit,St. Paul druggist Robert Sweeney had dug into two of the mounds in 1867 recovering human remains and pottery; at that time the mounds were referred to as the Stanration Point Mounds. In July 1947, archaeologist Lloyd Wilford of the University of Minnesota partially excavated Mounds 10 and 11. Mound 11 contained human remains. Wilford referred to the mounds as the Halpin Group after the landowner at that time. In the 1950s, the mounds were given the official state number of 21HE3. Mounds 8-14 are within the property boundaries of 1480 Green Trees Road. All of these mounds are visible,although onl.y the west end of linear mound 14 is still visible just west of the driveway.The other mounds are largely intact with some edge destruction due to road construction on Co Rd 15 on the east edge of the property and on Green Trees Road on the north.Soil probes in the projected location of Mound 14 indicated that mound fill and perhaps pit features may be intact east of the driveway.We do not know if any remnants of Mound 14 exist under the driveway, but have to assume that possibility as the driveway sub-grade construction may not have penetrated deeply into the soil. Yesterday,we placed pink pin flags to show the burial ground boundary. I used a standard 20-foot buffer for the mounds east and south of the driveway, but only a 10-foot buffer for the remnant of Mound 14 west of the driveway due to the constraint of the road immediately to the north and landscaping to the . west. Because a distance of more than 100 feet exists between the northernmost mounds (8, 9, 10, 13, 14) and the southernmost mounds(11 and 12), I have placed them into two discrete burial grounds with a gap between them.The boundary of Mounds 11-12 was created by drawing a 20-foot buffer beyond the base of each mound and then connecting the ares.The boundary of the northern group has boundary formed by the construction limits of Co Rd 15 on the east and Green Trees Road on the north. The southern boundary is formed by connecting the west edge of a 20-foot buffer around Mound 10 to the 10-foot buffer around the remnant of Mound 14.The west edge is 10 feet west of the Mound 14 remnant.