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Multi-periodSite Name: Ootssip'tomowa Look Out Hill Alternative Name: Nose Hill ParkCountry: Canada Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Nearest Town: Calgary Nearest Village: North Haven
Latitude: 51.101111N Longitude: 114.098611W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Hill Figure or Geoglyph in Canada
Ootsspi'tomowa Look Out Hill is a natural park in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta which covers over 11 km². It is the fourth-largest urban park in Canada, and one of the largest urban parks in North America.
Ootsspi'tomowa Look Out Hill contains significant archaeological sites, including stone Indigenous tipi rings and the Siksikaitsitapi medicine wheel. Nose Hill Park was a sacred place used for ceremonies and burials. This is part of the legacy left by Indigenous peoples in Treaty 7 territory.
Exposed to the drying and warming effects of the recurrent Chinook winds, Nose Hill provided favorable wintering grounds for bison herds which, in turn, attracted people to the hill's grassy slopes. The park today contains numerous tipi rings – circles of stone once used to weigh down the conical-shaped skin dwellings of plains bison hunters. Also within the perimeters of today's park are ancient tool-making stations, a stone cairn, and evidence of bison kills conducted long ago.
The coordinates for this Site is where the Siksikaitsitapi Medicine Wheel is located within the Park.
There is a rather good PDF File about it:
http://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/csps/parks/documents/locations/nose-hill-park-landmark-interpretive-sign.pdf
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