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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