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<< Text Pages >> Beaver Island Stone Circle - Stone Circle in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

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MysteriesSite Name: Beaver Island Stone Circle
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Charlevoix, MI  Nearest Village: Saint James, MI
Latitude: 45.680661N  Longitude: 85.590671W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
3
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Stone Circle in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
Some argument appears to surround this mysterious site, a circle of naturally shaped glacial boulders of various size. In general the mystery is whether the circular pattern of the stones is entirely due to a pre-contact placement of stones or a more recent removal of stones that did not fit a circular pattern. However, the circle is recognize by the native people of the Anishinaabemowin and Anishinaabe culture as a sacred site.

Some of the stones exhibit incised lines and a stone at the center of the pattern appears to have been shaped in a circular hole in the center - perhaps for a sighting pole. A variety of astronomical alignments have been found.
Beaver Island is described as one of the most remote inhabited islands in the Great Lakes. The island website describes the stone circle. Beaver Island may be reached by regularly scheduled ferry. The location of the stone circle is not explicitly listed on the island website, the site location is for the island itself.


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Re: Beaver Island Stone Circle by Anonymous on Tuesday, 03 October 2023
Lewiston Mound is shown in Canada but is in Michigan
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Re: Beaver Island Stone Circle by Anonymous on Tuesday, 06 August 2013
The Beaver Island Stone Circle is very similar to the Big Horn Mountain Medicine Wheel. It is both a solar and a lunar calender, with boulders in the correct locations to indicate the heliacal risings of the stars Aldeberon on the Summer Solstice, Rigel 28 days later and Sirius 28 days later. The rising and setting of the sun on the Summer Solstice is also indicated by placed boulders.
The circle is really an oval like other medicine wheels across the northern regions of the United States and southern Canada. It is 397' in diameter N/S and 360' in diameter E/W. This measurement makes this stone circle the largest in North America.
I discovered the circle in 1985 and have been researching it since that time. In 1971, over 150 stones were taken from the site to be used in construction in the town of St. James. Before this date, the circle formed a spoked wheel with a cairn of large boulders in the middle. At present, the location of the stones that are missing can be traced by the ground depressions still visible. The circle has also been compromised because of defacing and moving of the stones. The stone circle was given a site number by the State of Michigan as an archaeology site. Work is ongoing to restore it to its original shape and conformation.
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