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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sundial Medicine Wheel - Ring Cairn in Canada

Submitted by Runemage on Friday, 21 January 2011  Page Views: 15674

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sundial Medicine Wheel
Country: 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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Sundial Medicine Wheel
Sundial Medicine Wheel submitted by Runemage : Sundial Medicine Wheel looking south showing the 'passage' Photo by John Nightingale. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Alberta, Canada. Situated on a hilltop in Alberta, Sundial Medicine Wheel consists of a central rock pile or cairn and two surrounding cobble circles joined by a 'passageway' of stones.

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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Sundial Medicine Wheel
Sundial Medicine Wheel submitted by Runemage : Sundial Medicine Wheel Summit Photo by John Nightingale. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sundial Medicine Wheel
Sundial Medicine Wheel submitted by Runemage : Sundial Medicine Wheel Signboard showing how this construction has a 'passageway' between two circles of boulders. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sundial Medicine Wheel - Alberta, Canada - Singing We n' de ya (Cherokee) Song by Andy B on Saturday, 22 January 2011
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