<< Our Photo Pages >> Sundial Medicine Wheel - Ring Cairn in Canada
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sundial Medicine WheelCountry: Canada
NOTE: This site is 47.674 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ring Cairn
Latitude: 50.109778N Longitude: 112.748083W
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 |
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No excavations have been done here and its date of construction is unknown. The earliest Medicine Wheels were constructed about 4,500 years ago and the most recent were built in the 1940's by the Blood Indians of Southern Alberta.
Site submitted by John Nightingale.
Directions on how to find it are here.
"GETTING THERE: From Highway 2 at Claresholm, turn east on Highway 520 and follow it to Highway 23. Go north for 16 kilometres (10 miles) to Carmangay and continue through the town which is just east of the highway, to find a road that exits from the northeast corner of the town. This road connects with a good gravel road heading east. Follow this road for about 23 kilometres (14 miles), or until you can see the valley of the Little Bow River and a power transmission line crossing the road. Approximately one kilometer (two-thirds of a mile) from (west of) the power line is a sign on the south side of the road reading "Northstar Energy". Turn south onto this road (which eventually ends at Northstar's gas plants) and follow it until you come to a left immediately after the cattle guard, but a sign indicates that Sundial Hill is straight ahead. Proceed south on a rough, but well-used prairie trail that skirts a low, wet area and continues for about three kilometers to the site. (Ordinary vehicles may have trouble negotiating this road and since it crosses leased grazing land, use caution and watch for range cattle.) This hill has been fenced off and an interpretive panel can be found in the northeast corner. Park and walk up the hill. As always when visiting Alberta's ancient places, visitors are asked to refrain from disturbing the site in any way.
Reprinted from Barbara Huck and Doug Whiteway's In Search of Ancient Alberta with kind permission from Heartland Associates, Inc."
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