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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blue Mounds Equinox Stone Alignment Alternative Name: Blue Mounds Stone AlignmentCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 53.338 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Village: Blue Mounds State Park
Latitude: 43.692238N Longitude: 96.194677W
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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Stone Row / Alignment in Great Lakes Midwest
On the first day of Spring (and the first day of Autumn), the sun rises and sets precisely above a quarter mile long row of rocks lined up exactly east and west. According to a park Naturalist, it's more than a quirk of geology. "It's definitely man made. The stones are arrow straight, east and west. You can set a compass by them." The stones are mostly the familiar pink quartzite that's found in so many place in the region. They range in size from "a hefty handful to lunkers the size of a car engine." Theories range from ancient civilizations to some creative and muscular sheep herder who needed a fence on his property.
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